Sudden weak wifi in one room
Within the past month or so my wife and I have both noticed that in our bedroom all of our apple products (iPad, mini, and phones) have become very unreliable for things like YouTube or Netflix loading/buffering, and often standard websites don't work at all. We've both tried resetting everything and also reset the router. All other devices in the house, including a blu ray player in the same room, have no issues. The products also show a full strength wifi connection but don't work, though as soon as we leave the bedroom everything does. Any ideas what might have caused this and what the solution might be?
Check your router for these settings: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4199
That may help, but in the end, the strength that the Apple products are receiving are just not very strong for some reason in your one room only. DIfferent product use different band like a,b,g,n so one type of device can have a stong signal while another has a weak one if one band is having an issue in the router or otherwise having an issue penetrating walls.
You can also try resetting the router to factory settings and updating the firmware. I used to have this same issue with a Linksys router, but then I finally replaced with with an Airport Extreme and the beamforming technology eliminated all issues. I now have 100% strength in 95% of my home and outside to.
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