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I have a newer laptop, purchased within the last year (acer aspire 7740). This laptop does not have any problem connecting to wireless networks and indicates that the signal strength is excellent on most of the wireless networks I connect to. When the laptop is within 10 feet of my wireless router it gets 30 down 10 up. When it is farther away than 10 feet it will be lucky to get 3 down and 1 up. I also have an older laptop, purchased in 2005, that has no problems at all at the same range. None of my phones, gaming consoles or tablets have this problem.

I am beginning to think that the problem must be some hardware defect with the wireless card.

I can provide additional information if needed. Just thought I'd check to see what others thought because I've been working on computers my whole life and have never heard of this happening. I have also tried to change the channels on my wireless router and have had no success with this idea.

Matt Case
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I had this same problem once. Do you know which 802.11 you're running on both devices? In my situation, my router was running 802.11g and my new wireless card was getting a really poor signal off of that. Once I bought a new router that was using 802.11n, the signal went up drastically and all my ills were cured. Try that, and your ills may be solved as well

Darian Everett
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Your internal wireless card may be disconnected from the antenna. Look for a circular connector that matches a tiny circular snap on the card. enter image description here

Chris Nava
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