On 2/21/2014 1:53 PM, Heith Petersen wrote:
I have a long standing customer that recently bought a PC from best
buy. He kept telling me he would lose signal from his Air Router. So
he came to my office and I set him up with a Pico station. Worked good
at first then failure. So I talked with him at night. His PC couldn't
see the Pico 10 foot away but his phone and laptop were on it all the
way across the house. The room where this PC is in gets cold at times,
but when he turns up the heat it starts to work. Geek Squad said there
is nothing wrong with the box, but if he takes a hair dryer to his PC
wireless starts to work after it warms up wireless starts to work. Bad
Motherboard?
Does it have an external antenna? Sometimes those connectors break; it
looks like it's attached but it's not making electrical contact. I had
that happen on a Buffalo client bridge. Futzing with the antenna fixed
the signal. Since temperature can make things expand or contract, that
could be where the loose connection is.
If it's a laptop with an internal antenna, never mind... but if it is
the kind whose back can be unscrewed, WiFi is usually on an easily
replaceable mPCI card.
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Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net
Interisle Consulting Group
+1 617 795 2701
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