Got a laptop here with unusually poor WiFi Reception.
Even having it next to the router is only giving me 3 bars and none of the neighbours networks show.
It has one of those crappy atheors adapters inside, which dont really have any official driver support for windows 10 so I thought I would swap it out for a better one i had with an intel chipset, still gives me the same poor wifi signal. I dont think the download speeds are anything amazing either and seems to have bad latency at times and the internet stops working if the signal gets too low.

Seems to be one of the more cheaper low end HP models, but still most should be able to get a decent signal.

nzoomed - 2020-11-11 12:50:00

What kind of lappy is it? Maybe you need to look at changing the channel of the Wi-Fi as I had a cheapie HP laptop a few years back that basically wouldn't connect at all to the available Wi-FI network unless the channel from the router was spot on.

cube_guy - 2020-11-11 13:15:00

That might help or get a usb wifi adapter

nice_lady - 2020-11-11 13:17:00

Im thinking of using a small USB one, dont think channel has anything to do with it as all the networks in my area use various channels and only about one is showing.

Tried my android phone hotspot with the same results

Its an HP hp model no 15-g036au product j2c36pa#abg

nzoomed - 2020-11-11 13:48:00

FYI there are win 10 drivers listed for it
https://support.hp.com/nz-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-15-Noteb
ook-PC-series/6545564/model/7132329

Doesn't sound like it will make any difference though

king1 - 2020-11-11 13:54:00

king1 wrote:

FYI there are win 10 drivers listed for it
https://support.hp.com/nz-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-15-Noteb
ook-PC-series/6545564/model/7132329

Doesn't sound like it will make any difference though

Already tried those drivers and much newer unofficial drivers from that site in the Czech republic.

Anyway, since the intel card has the same results, I can only assume its a fault in the antenna or the tiny coax cable running to it, its not the first time ive experienced this in a laptop. Will just end up installing a USB stick I think.

nzoomed - 2020-11-11 16:33:00

nzoomed wrote:

Already tried those drivers and much newer unofficial drivers from that site in the Czech republic.

Anyway, since the intel card has the same results, I can only assume its a fault in the antenna or the tiny coax cable running to it, its not the first time ive experienced this in a laptop. Will just end up installing a USB stick I think.

I had the same frustrating problem... but worked around it by having a super-long ethernet cable hooked up between the router and the laptop.

Edited by hazelnut2 at 5:43 pm, Wed 11 Nov

hazelnut2 - 2020-11-11 17:43:00

ok i have had that on my laptop also once.. now how did it fix it self.
Well i watch a lot of electronic repair videos from people who show how its real done . like Luise Rossman or the romanian guy who works in some supermarket complext repair job in London. The problem is most likely a capacitor fault. "how it works is there is like 3 caps not just one the theory is that if one fails the thing still works as where there is only 1 it be dead.

Now the problem is the caps supposed to fail open circuit. But its not what they always do they fail short= you have all 3 rendered unable to function.
So what they do sometimes is just mad man munce the offending one off the board and woala it works again.
What i think my one did it was shorted and i used a cable and then it managed to burn it open circuit and now works again my wireless on laptop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing
this is his latest video i think on munzing normally makes vids from shop .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqgC2hc24JU

ps i used a usb wifi till my laptops wifi started to work again by it self.

Edited by intrade at 11:38 am, Thu 12 Nov

intrade - 2020-11-12 11:29:00