Wifi Signal Booster

Hello,
I am looking for some kind of USB (or anything else) antenna attachment to boost my MacBook Pro's wifi reception. Can anyone suggest one they've had positive experiences with?
Thanks!

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I own a Lenovo G580, which works wonderfully. However, my laptop will not connect to a wifi signal booster, it must be in direct access to the modem itself. For example, when at school I share wifi with an apartment above me, they have the modem router and I have the signal booster. Now, my roommates computers will connect via the signal booster, and so will my phone, but my laptop will only connect if I go up to the apartment with the modem. It also will not connect to the wifi signal booster at my school, which it used to do but now will not. Is there any suggestions? I've thought about completely restoring my laptop to it's original settings because at one point in time it would connect to signal boosters, thoughts?

Hi RuthKing95,
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Have you checked with updating the Wifi driver and the Energy Management application for your system?
Is the Wifi adapter able to see the Wifi signal booster?
Is the Wifi adapter enabled from function keys?
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Boosting o2 Wifi signal with Airport Express

Dear all,
I had read that one could boost our o2 Wifi signal with the Airport Express. I don't seem to be able to do it! Can anyone help.
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It is possible if the wireless network is created by another AirPort Express (AX), an AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS), or a Time Capsule. Otherwise it is not possible.

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I just bought the Blu-ray player which has a wireless LAN built-in. It is having trouble connecting with Netflix. I don't think the signal is strong enough, since I am in a Loft Condo which has one concrete wall that I think is blocking the signal.
If I get something to boost my wifi signal, is that called a repeater. And will it cut the speed in half?
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I suppose the simplest solution, but you didn't say if possible, would be to simply move the wifi router closer to the BD player..
If not, then it will simply take whatever signal it receives and rebroadcast it. So say on a scale of 1-10. The repeater is picking up your wifi at a 4, it'll rebroadcast at a maximum speed of 4, but the repeater itself will be broadcasting at a 10.
I'm tired, so if that didn't make any sense, please, other peoples, chime in.
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I'm NOT an employee of Best Buy, or Geek Squad, though I did work as an Agent for a year 5 years ago. None of my posts are to be taken as the official stance that Best Buy will take on your situation. My advice is just that, advice.
Unfortunately, that's the bad luck of any electronic, there's going to be bad Apples... wait that's a horrible pun.

I seem to have very poor wifi signal strength,is there any way to boost my signal

I seem to have very poor wifi signal strength,is there any way to boost my signal

If you gave some information on what network equipment you are using (make, model, version) and where you are experiencing signal problems it would help in giving advice.

I am staying long term at a hotel. Is there a way I can boost the wifi signal?

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I think you may have better luck working with the hotel management and have them contact their wireless service provider to see if they can improve the signal in your room.
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Does the old still a good product?
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So, this is all there is all there is available to boost my signal in hard to reach areas with Apple devices?
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time for work.... I will find out what I haave within the hour

Cancelled Infinity. Wifi signal did not reach rest...

Short synopsis:
Before buying Infinity, try your current wifi hub plugged into your master socket, and see if your wifi signal can still reach the rest of the house. If your master is at the wrong end of the house to your computers, like me, then BT will offer you pretty much no solution. And once you discover this to be the case, they make it extremely difficult to downgrade the contract to DSL, let alone cancelling the (useless) broadband connection.
Long rant:
The engineer came to install Infinity. We talked briefly about moving the Master Socket from a small room at the front of the house. Initially he said that it was not possible to move the Master at all, but when pushed he said that in doing so he'd have to disconnect any internal wiring, meaning all the rest of the telephone sockets in the house would no longer work. I didn't want that. I also didn't want an ethernet cable trailing round my house, and he couldn't plumb one outside. _But_, he said, the wifi range of the Hub is excellent and will easily cover the house. And also the speed difference between wifi and wired is negligable. Sounded great. After switching it on he pretty much ran out the house before I could even connect with a single PC.
From then on the troubles started. After I had a lot of drop-out connections from my upstairs office, I used iStumbler on my MacBook Pro and found that signal strength was 50% in the tiny room with the master socket, 25% in the _room_next_door_ where I have a PS3, and upstairs in my study the signal was only 18% and every couple of minutes the connection would completely fail.   Incidentally, the Home Hub 3 signal strength is quite a lot _less_ than my old Thompson router that I got from my previous ISP (Be Unlimited).
The problem is obviously that the Hub is too far from where I have my computers. And yet there is no way to move the hub from the Master Socket, and no way for me to move the Master Socket (although if I sacrificed my other phone points and paid some cash then possibly I could have done this).   And I don't want to move my office to a poky tiny room next to the front door where the Master is.
With my previous ISP, I had my router in an upstairs bedroom, and got great signal both in the lounge and in my upstairs study. I could even sit in the back garden and use the Internet. And indeed when I run the Home Hub 3 in that same room, I get the same reception (although 5% less than with my previous router).
So at this point I started calling BT Tech Support.
The first call ended in someone telling me they were off to run a "line check" that would apparently not only check my line but also my entire wifi network (!), and they'd call back in 10 mins. They never did. Tech Support, by the way offers no Incident Support number, and seemingly no one ever writes down your issue, so I've had to explain the same problem to every single person I talk to, and face the same instant defences.
The next call was for an hour where the guy very painstakingly made me go to the room with the Master Socket (to get reception), change channel, go upstairs, prove I lost the signal. Despite the fact that I'd tried all channels before, he insisted. Don't worry, he said, I'll fix your problem. He was completely sure that the Hub signal would reach all parts of the house. Ultimately, having failed to find a better channel, he put it back to 11 and said that I should "Wait 24 hours to let the wireless signals _propagate_ round my house, which is very important with a brand new router", which very much sounded like BS to me.   After this time there was no change in signal.
The next call to Tech Support resulted in the following possibilities:-
1) Run a big ethernet cable throughout the house from the Hub to my _main_computer (ignoring my other wifi devices I guess).
2) Buy a "wireless booster" (by which I think they meant "range extender"). This support guy very seriously told me to "Get PCWorld to come round your house and work out where to place the device, but don't buy it before you try it because they'll try to sell you it even if it doesn't work". Apart from that hilarity I didn't want a range extender _purely_ because my Hub was forced to be in a stupid place, and I didn't want to spend £60 on it. And the support guy said that BT could not recommend _any_ device or make that would work with their Hub, so it was between me an the PCWorld guy who'd come home with me.
So then I called Customer Services with the reasonable proposition (I thought) to exchange Infinity for DSL. The idea being that the Home Hub 3 worked fine in the bedroom from a telephone extension. I was a new broadband customer so it was still business to them. Customer Support said that I could not cancel the Infinity contract without a penalty. I dread to think what that was because later on they told me the penalty for early termination of a DSL contract is £8 per month left of the contract, and I was here 2 days into am 18 month Infinity contract. I objected, saying that Infinity clearly did not work for my house. They then put me through (as a special treat, it usually costs money) to Home IT, saying that if those guys could not help then they'd waive the charge.
So I talked to Home IT. They had one last suggestion that I already had considered. A Powerline connection from Hub to another wifi router somewhere more central in the house. The problems there are that Powerline bandwidth is highly dependent on your house wiring (and after all the point of Infinity is to get that super fast bandwidth), and that they were suggesting I pay £100 for Powerline, and £60 for another router. And again, there would be no technical support for setting this up.    I declined and they said they'd put a "note" on my account telling Customer Services that they agreed that downgrading to DSL was the best solution.
So I called Cust Services again. Explained the entire thing again. Again they said there was _no_way_ to cancel the Infinity contract (not even to change it to DSL) without a large financial penalty.   So I told them my other option was to cancel the entire thing because it just didn't work, and I guess that triggered some thought that I probably _could_ just cancel legally, so after talking to their supervisor they came back and set up the DSL alternative for me.
Now I have to wait a week for the DSL to be activated, which hopefully will happen without problem. Aparently I don't need the engineer to come back and "disconnect" Infinity from the Master Socket. And BT don't want my 2 day old Infinity modem back either.
What gets me about the whole thing is that no one ever said "oh yeah, we get this sometimes". I think it would be amazing if every single person who buys Infinity just happens to have their Master Socket either in the same room as all their computer equipment, or close to it, or is happy to accept all their internal phone wiring to be rendered useless just to get a few extra Mb download speed, or is techie enough that they're willing to spend another £200 on additional wireless solutions just to get the signal from their front door to their PC.
Meanwhile to be able to write this, I'm sat next to the Master Socket in a room that is small enough that we've been using it as a very messy storage cupboard. It's not exactly condusive to work.
My Infinity download speed, by the way, varied (when I sat near the Hub to actually get the signal) from 12Mb to 20Mb. DSL speeds were 7 or 8Mb prior to that.

Points taken guys!
I wanted to change ISP to BT, and took a few seconds to convince myself that it was worth "going large" with the Infinity package.   I knew about the master socket thing. I'd read that some people had got the engineer to move this, which was my initial plan to move it to the lounge. I also read that the Home Hub 3 had "excellent" range, so that seemed fine. I didn't _imagine_ that with a hub in the room with the master socket I'd have no signal at the other end of the house, so I didn't test this. In fact I've never had any problems with wifi signal where my router used to be so I never even investigated signal strength before or even downloaded iStumbler.
The engineer immediately talked me out of moving the socket for reasons mentioned, and said again that the wifi signal strength of the Hub was great and would reach the whole house. The moment he connected up the socket there was just time for me to wifi connect with my laptop in the same room before he said that his work was done and he was off. He _did_ turn up early just before lunch so perhaps that was more on his mind. I had no time to test signal anywhere else in the house before he left. Hence I said "ran off".
Using another router. I didn't try this. The Home Hub has a very ominous red lead connecting it to the Infinity modem. And the red lead comes out a socket marked Infinity rather than the other socket marked ADSL. As such I've assumed that one could only use the Home Hub with the Infinity modem, and not some other DSL modem. Perhaps I was wrong. I'm not that technical about networks and I've also bought into a package by a vendor and so don't really feel like messing around replacing parts of that package.
My house is a medium 4 bed house. The master socket is in a small room next to the front door. My study is in a back bedroom, from where I get 18% signal as reported by iStumbler. The lounge is next door to the master socket room, where I was getting about 25% signal. I also only get a max of 60% signal when I'm touching the Mac to the Hub, so maybe the hub is defective, or the Mac is.   No BT tech support guy has raise any sort of eyebrow at these figures, or suggested that either the Mac or the Hub is broken. I also have a MacMini in the office that shows similar signal strength there, and the iPhone won't even see the hub at all from there, but can connect if in the same room as the hub.
But regardless, everything was fine with my old router setup with my old ISP. Except that the 3 year old router seemed to occassionally crash and drop the line. So rather than get tech support from Be Unlimiter, or buy a new router, I though the _easy_ option would be just to move provider to BT and get a fancy new router as part of the deal.   Also I've always perhaps nievely thought that if you have BT for phone and broadband then if something goes wrong then they can't tell you it's not their fault. Shrug. If I'd known that I'd have been on the phone to tech support for hours anyway, I'd have just talked to Be in the first place. Now I kind of want things to go back to the state that I actually _had_ internet access in my study, which is why I settled on again the easy option of convincing BT to downgrade me to DSL.
Apart from coming here to vent (apologies), I think it's actually quite an important fact to consider when thinking about Infinity whether moving your hub from a central point in the house to your master socket (usually a point closest the street) will affect your wifi reception throughout the house.
I didn't consider that. And it's caused me two days of frustration. And I'm now sat in a cupboard.

My iPad 2 picks up very weak wifi signal, but my iPod touch 5 in the same spot picks up super strong signal. What can I do to change this?

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http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-tips-tricks/potential-quick-fixes-when-your-ipad-won t-connect-to-your-wifi-network/
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Wifi Doesn't Connect After Waking From Sleep - Sometimes increasing screen brightness prevents the failure to reconnect after waking from sleep. According to Apple, “If brightness is at lowest level, increase it by moving the slider to the right and set auto brightness to off.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWS4ha-dn0
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iPad: Issues connecting to Wi-Fi networks http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3304
WiFi Connecting/Troubleshooting http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/wifi/
How to Fix: My iPad Won't Connect to WiFi
http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Troubleshooting/ss/How-To-Fix-My-Ipad-Wont-Connect -To-Wi-Fi.htm
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http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/21/fix-new-ipad-3-wi-fi-reception-problems/
iPad Wi-Fi Problems: Comprehensive List of Fixes
http://appletoolbox.com/2010/04/ipad-wi-fi-problems-comprehensive-list-of-fixes/
Connect iPad to Wi-Fi (with troubleshooting info)
http://thehowto.wikidot.com/wifi-connect-ipad
Fix iPad Wifi Connection and Signal Issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwWtIG5jUxE
Fix Slow WiFi Issue https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2398063?start=60&tstart=0
How To Fix iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Wi-Fi Connectivity Issue http://tinyurl.com/7nvxbmz
Unable to Connect After iOS Update - saw this solution on another post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4010130
Note - When troubleshooting wifi connection problems, don't hold your iPad by hand. There have been a few reports that holding the iPad by hand, seems to attenuate the wifi signal.
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth settings grayed out or dim
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1559
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If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
 Cheers, Tom

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I upgrade to iOS4, and now my iPod Touch 3rd gen's WIFI signal fluctuates now matter how close I am to my Airport. I can be right next to the Airport and the signal will go back and forth from one bar to three bars. Never happened with OS 3.1.3.
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monepone wrote:
For those having Wi-Fi issues... What level of encryption are you using on your routers? And is your router at full power? I'm not really having any Wi-Fi issues, I'm using WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES] and I switch my router to full power after I started having the iOS4 batter problem. (it was on "Neighbor Friendly" Mode). I was worried that a weaker signal would contribute even more to the already existing battery drain and I'm figuring that having the encryption on the highest level is also affecting the battery as well, but I haven't tested the difference.
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Can you tell us if the AirPort Express is connected to the AirPort Extreme using a wired Ethernet connection (this is the best way to extend a wireless network).....or.....is the AirPort Express communicating to the AirPort Extreme using only a wireless signal?
Do you have a Mac laptop handy to check some settings? If yes, what operating system is the Mac using?
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Hey,
My Macbook Pro (13" Late 2011) has a full WiFi signal at home but my iPhone 5 barely connects to the same network.
Is there a way connect my iPhone to the WiFi through my MacBook? (As a signal booster)
Thanks in advance.

You can share your Ethernet connection to other devices using WiFi. This turns your MacBook into a primitive Router.
You cannot both connect via WiFi and share via WiFi.
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At this moment, I believe your only option is the network extender, which is currently a Samsung model. You would hook this up to your home internet connection. Limitations are it is only 3G and not LTE.
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