I am facing huge wifi issues since some months and have tried different solutions that do not seem to work. I'll give you a little history before giving some data.
My house was before connected to internet through ADSL technology. Being in Belgium, I was on the Proximus network with a BBox2. The speed was rather low compared to some other places that were better deserved. Despite that, all house was deserved with a strong signal even far in the street. Speed was bad, but signal was quite strong. However, some years ago, we finally got the VDSL technology with improved download and upload speeds.
Since some months, however, the signal is getting really bad in all the house. I did a test in all the different rooms to get the signal strength:
- Office: -49 dBm (just next to the router)
- Kitchen: -80 dBm (room next to the office)
- Livingroom: -79 dBm (room also close to the office)
- Diningroom: -86 dBm (a bit more far but the room is still quite close)
- Upstair rooms: ranges from -70 to -85 dBm depending on the location.
All tests have been realized on a 2.4 Ghz network (the 5 has not a range that is sufficient for some rooms). I tried manually selecting the best channel using a scan utility on my MacBook Pro. However, there are not much networks around (my Mac finds only 3 including my 2.4 and 5). It was in auto and I tried the best from the scan utility which are the 6 and 11 channels, no change.
When I achieve a speediest from my livingroom, I get these numbers on both wifis:
- 2.4: -79 dBm; 0.7 Mbps (down); 6 Mbps (up)
- 5.0: -80 dBm; 29 Mbps (down); 7.8 Mbps (up) One could say I could only use the 5 Ghz wifi but I can easily lose the signal in many rooms and it's quite annoying.
My 2.4 wifi is set on 802.11 gn mode. I can select the g mode but it does not improve the situation. The 5 is on ac mode.
I had a BBox3 router and I changed for a Bbox3x+ router as I thought the router was the problem. But the problem persists.
