Thread: weak wireless signal
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sevo is offline sevo
2007-11-27 , 23:12
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Originally Posted by cyberghost View Post
I am not very close to a hot spot. My laptop with usb wireless adapter can pickup the signal very well. My n800, however, could not detect the infrastucture. Is there any way for the n800 access to that same access point? can we use usb external wireless adapter on n800?
You can only use USB devices on the N800 if you build yourself a special power-inserting cable - and with cable and wall-wart attached, there is not that much point in a handheld device any more.

The WiFi radio on the N800 is quite up to laptop built-ins - if it doesn't see the network at all, while a laptop does, it is more likely to be the known issue with 802.11pre-n signals blocking the reception of 802.11b/g on some radios (including the N800). The only thing you could do would be to disable pre-n on the disturbing device or, under favourable conditions, switch to another band on the AP.