Wireless Connection Strength Randomly Dropped

[MisterGoldfish]

My WiFi has been working fine for months now and out of no where the signal strength dropped dramatically the router has not been moved or anything and no settings have been changed but I can not connect to it from my upstairs at all and I can not figure out what happened or what is wrong with it thank you in advance for any responses.

 

[Ralston18]

You stated that "the router has not been moved or anything". By "anything" I trust that you mean no furniture relocations, walls constructed, wiring changes, etc.. No physical environmental changes - correct?

Suggestions:

1) Have you/can you test another wireless device from "upstairs" to see if it can get a good signal?

--- If another device can connect with a good signal then your current wifi adapter is suspect.

2) Can you move the upstairs device (hopefully a laptop) closer to the router to see if it connects?

---If moving closer to the router achieves a better signal then the router is suspect.

What make and model router are you using? How old?

 

[MisterGoldfish]

It's a desktop and no nothing like that has been changed.I'm using a netgear router model WNDRMACv2

 

[Ralston18]

What about other devices being able to connect from where your desktop is located?

What about moving closer to the router for testing.....?

Take a look at Section 9 in the User Manual.

http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/WNDRMAC_UM_15Apr11.pdf

Go through the various "problems" and double check everything.

One way or another you need to determine if the problem is the router or the adapter. Then focus accordingly.

 

[DeadlyDays]

First step of IT troubleshooting if you don't know what to do(unless told somewhere specifically not to)

Turn it off and on again.

To be more specific for a router, powercycle it by turning it off for 30 seconds and then turning it back on(either with power switch or unplugging the power cable)

You ISP will tell you to try that first for a reason.