maemo.org - Talk - WiFi connection issues and weak 3G / Edge signal

I was wondering if you ever found a solution to this issue.I don't presently have my N900 connected with a cellular provider, however at home, though it always shows full bars, the internet drops off and I have to reboot the connection.

Very, very frustrating!

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Originally Posted by Rushmore (Post 398561)

I am running into issues and wonder if others are, or am I just unlucky:

Wifi:

Shows full bars, and I am in the same room as the router, yet it is hit and usually miss for a connection. I thought changing the device to medium wifi radio setting would help, but it seems that was just one of my lucky chances of an actual connection to wifi.

G1, Archos 5, Droid and Dash connect fine, but the N900 shows full bars too, though rarely connects to the internet. I have it set to connect to any connection and wifi if available.

Even when the n900 does connect to wifi, it lasts a few minutes and stops again, yet shows full bars when I go to the active connection screen for the wifi.

2G / Edge

The radio on the N900 is actually weaker than the G1. The G1 is weaker than the Dash and my old N-Gage. That makes the N900's 2G and Edge connection weaker than any of those devices.

Same places I get one bar with G1, then no signal for about half a mile are now no bars and longer areas with no signal.

This is all very frustrating for me, since when the N900 connects the Flash performance is better than expected and I have almost 100 Flash games, of which most play good.

Side note: I can not figure out how to get the device in "mouse mode" so I can use the stylus when launching Flash games from the file manager (this is more efficient than running them on the actual web page). The mouse / stylus issue is a tangent, but I still would like to know.

I must admit that I a very surprised and disappointed of the wifi and radio signal performance. I never expected the device to be so weak for phone and internet connectivity.

Another 2G issue is that when the N900 does lose signal, it takes over a minute or longer to reacquire the signal- much longer than my other phones. Several times it did not reacquire a connection for 2G until minutes later, in spite of being in a "four bar" area.

If I did not have multiple devices to compare to, I would think my wifi is the problem and the weak phone signal is just the way it is. The signal is weak where I live, but not as weak as the N900 performs.