Hey everyone. I've been reading these forums for a long time but have never posted before, and now I've got a big head-scratcher I don' t know how to solve.
I have a Toshiba laptop that's almost three years old. It has internal wireless, and used to pick up signals from anywhere without a problem, even two stories away. Suddenly it stopped being able to connect properly to any wireless signal that's being transmitted from over 10 feet away. I know it's not my router because I have roommates whose computers will connect to our router everywhere in our house. And I don't think it's a software problem because I reformatted a few months ago and it didn't fix the problem.
Interestingly, if I'm in a far-away room of the house, it will acknowledge our wireless signal, and even those of our neighbors, I still can't connect to our, or any network. The same thing happens when I'm at other people's houses: As long as I'm in the same room as the router, I can connect fine, but not from any further away. I also tried connecting via an external wireless card, but that didn't work either.
I'm a freelancer who works from home, and it's killing me that I have a laptop I can't take out of the house. I'm getting some major cabin fever. Is anyone familiar with this kind of problem? I'm ready to take it somewhere to get fixed, but I just don't know where to start. It would at least be nice to maybe have some direction in terms of repair.
Thanks, guys!
Sandra
I have a Toshiba laptop that's almost three years old. It has internal wireless, and used to pick up signals from anywhere without a problem, even two stories away. Suddenly it stopped being able to connect properly to any wireless signal that's being transmitted from over 10 feet away. I know it's not my router because I have roommates whose computers will connect to our router everywhere in our house. And I don't think it's a software problem because I reformatted a few months ago and it didn't fix the problem.
Interestingly, if I'm in a far-away room of the house, it will acknowledge our wireless signal, and even those of our neighbors, I still can't connect to our, or any network. The same thing happens when I'm at other people's houses: As long as I'm in the same room as the router, I can connect fine, but not from any further away. I also tried connecting via an external wireless card, but that didn't work either.
I'm a freelancer who works from home, and it's killing me that I have a laptop I can't take out of the house. I'm getting some major cabin fever. Is anyone familiar with this kind of problem? I'm ready to take it somewhere to get fixed, but I just don't know where to start. It would at least be nice to maybe have some direction in terms of repair.
Thanks, guys!
Sandra