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My wireless router has a strong signal, but it won't connect in my backyard?
No matter where outside of my house I am, it is showing either 5 or 4 bars. However, it just stays on "Acquiring network connection", and doesn't do anything from there. Could another network or something similar be interfering?
I am not going far from my house. Its no more than 5 feet from the outside wall.
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavourite answer
It's possible. Try changing channels on your router if you can. Most routers default to channel six, and as a result that channel gets very busy in urban areas. Move to something at least two channels away to avoid adjacent-channel interference, ie, channel four.
If that doesn't help, you'll have to boost your signal somehow. http://dealextreme.com/ is a store out of Hong Kong that sells, among many many other things, wifi amplifiers and high-gain antennas. Match the antenna connector on your router to one of the high-gain wifi antennas dealextreme sells (omnidirectional preferrable) and you should see a huge boost in performance. If your router doesn't have detachable antennas you'll need one that does.
