Why does my signal strength from my wireless router fluctuate so much?

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#1 -Holtz-
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Why does my signal strength from my wireless router fluctuate so much?

Iv noticed some days, my ps3 signal strength will go from 79 to 35 in a second, this is very annoying for online matches XD

Any one know whats causing it?

thnx in advance

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#2 Franko_3
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brand of the router?
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#3 -Holtz-
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Ah, sorry its a "Linksys"

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#4 king_of_metal
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If you know what you're doing, you can flash the DD-WRT firmware on it and boost your signal from 28mW to 70mW. It helps me out a lot. It also lets the PS3 use UPnP, I could never get that to work on Linksys's firmware.
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#5 -Holtz-
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I think you need to be aware... your speaking to the most illllitarte computer person you'll ever meetXD but i shall google it or some thing and see if i can get a step by step thing to tell me how to do it:)

thnx any way!

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#6 jsmoke03
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If you know what you're doing, you can flash the DD-WRT firmware on it and boost your signal from 28mW to 70mW. It helps me out a lot. It also lets the PS3 use UPnP, I could never get that to work on Linksys's firmware.king_of_metal

any recomendations on sites that can help explain it?

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#7 jsmoke03
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anything for netgear?
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#8 -Holtz-
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Right Just a couple of questions first, Do i download this firmwire onto any of the computers on the wireless net work? or like, the main one? cos we have 3 computers and the ps3

and secondly can you explain uPnP quickly? :)

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#9 cmdrmonkey
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Read the DD-WRT wiki first. It should answer most of your questions.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

DD-WRT is designed around routers using Broadcom chipsets (mostly Linksys and Buffalo routers, although a few other brands use them). Not all Linksys routers are supported. It depends on the model, and more specifically the version number. You may be out of luck if you bought a newer Linksys WRT54G because Linksys has stripped them of most of their ram to cut costs. If you want to make sure you can run it, buy the Linksys WRT54GL. I lucked out because I ended up with a rare and much sought after model of the WRT54GS that has 32mb of ram that runs DD-WRT beautifully. Check here first to make sure you can even run it:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

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#10 -Holtz-
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Ah, thnx alot man:)
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#11 threepac81
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Get a Linksys WRT54GL Router and upgrade the firmware to either Tomato(which I use) or DD-WRT. They both have a feature to increase your routers transmit strength.
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#12 -Holtz-
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I have a Linksys WRT54GS Ver.6

is this good or bad? can i run that firmware on it?

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#13 -Holtz-
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Bump:) I forgot about this thred i made, and i never got an answere so i wasnt sure :/