Thread: N800 - Wifi problem. Cannot detect router at home
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2007-09-26 , 01:21
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Originally Posted by merovingian View Post
..... i get to a certain point and the the N800 just goes "wifi blind".....but there is something that kills it from finding any access points less than 50 feet from the steps of my house. What the heck? Could it be the powerlines, some bad "juju", nextel phones with all their buzzing radiations...i know i'm grasping at straws here, but i am so darned frustrated !!
I tired something similar last night. I re-enabled 'N' on my WiFi AP, so it was configured for N & G. The N800 went blind. I walked out to the street, about 30 ft from the AP, and the N800 started to see the local neighborhood AP's, and my own 'N' AP. I connected to my N AP without a problem and walked back into the house next to the AP. The N800 maintained a connection. When I tried to reconnect to the N AP while in the house, the N800 went blind again. Walking back out to at least 30ft from the AP allowed the N800 to connect to the N AP. So if I stay far enough away from the N AP, it works. When I get close, if is already connected, it stays connected, but it can't reconnect.

Of course when I switched the AP back to G-only mode, the N800 could connect no matter where I was.

So maybe there is something nearby that prevents the N800 from seeing WiFi. If not an N access point, perhaps something else that generates enough 2.4 ghz noise to muck up the N800.