Broadband for Poker

[rfgqqabc]

My laptop has become a bit banged up over time and now it appears like the wireless range on it has completely died. I used to be able to connect from my bedroom with the router ~15m away and now I'm having to sit 6ft away, altho it just about had signal by the door. Any advice on what gear to get to improve?

[Longines]

Something like this would be cheapest and easiest. You'd need to disable your laptop's built in WiFi, there is sometimes a physical switch for it or it's simple to do from within Windows.

[rfgqqabc]

Something like this would be cheapest and easiest. You'd need to disable your laptop's built in WiFi, there is sometimes a physical switch for it or it's simple to do from within Windows.

Sweet, thanks a lot. Sending off for one now!

[jgcblack]

Something like this would be cheapest and easiest. You'd need to disable your laptop's built in WiFi, there is sometimes a physical switch for it or it's simple to do from within Windows.

Sweet, thanks a lot. Sending off for one now!

Or just look up the wifi card on your laptop and investigate an onboard replacement... nothing more tilting than if you get an external wifi dongle (have one for PC so I could use hotel wifi in GPS stoke) and then forgetting it!

[Skippy]

You could try and see if the aerial has fallen off the wifi bit. Somewhere in your laptop (probably easily accessible from the bottom if you take some screws out- the best thing to do is google for laptop model disassembly and there are probably lots of videos and pages about taking your model to bits) there will be a little card like:

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The arrows cunningly point to the bits that might have got disconnected. As John says you can probably get a whole new little card from eBay, but if you are getting some but not enough signal, that seems to be unlikely as a fix.

[rfgqqabc]

Cracking stuff and i did drop my laptop a little bit before this problem started! Not from very high but it seems a likely cause of the problem. Thanks a lot to everyone who posted.

[Steve Swift]

Thanks for the replies guys all still going peachy at the moment.