I have a wireless router connected to my Desktop and 2 Laptops. The signal on 1 laptop is suddenly poor - why?

Question

I am never more than 10-20m away from the router and we have normal brick build construction, one hands free phone handset and a few mobiles. Both laptops have always had excellent signal strength but now the SOny Vaio has suddenly dropped the connection unless I sit alongside the router. What can I do to remedy this?

Answer 1

Go to your router IP adress and go on Advanced settings and make sure the signals are distributed evenly thoughout all computers.

Answer 2

If there's no outside interference - sounds like the internal antennae might be having a problem.  You can verify by disabling the internal wireless, and trying a usb wireless adapter.  If you signal gets better then you know the problem. if not it's an interference problem.  Most laptop mfgs. put the antennae around the screen.

Answer 3

may be worth resetting the router to use another channel in case another network is causing interference

Try reinstalling the wireless drivers on the viao.