FIOS internet signal & video game consoles
ajsesr
Newbie

I got FIos internet a couple of weeks back and the signal was at 100% on the video game consoles in the next room.  Now it is mostly in the 30-50% range and causes online connection problems.  Nothing was changed or moved.  What's the deal?

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dslr595148
Community Leader
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Hubrisnxs
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a nice companion to that article that dslr posted is the instructions on how to change the wifi channels in your router to help.  

 you can do that in the router.   open a browser, and go to http://192.168.1.1

user name is admin.  and the password is most likely the serial number found on the service tag of your VZ router unless you changed it. Once you login succesfully, go to the top and hit wireless, then on the left basic security.   then go to option 3 which is channel  1, 6 and 11 and are the only channels you should try.

So it will likely be set to auto, change it to 11 and put the check for keep settings even after reboot (Directly under the channel) and then hit apply.  after you hit apply,  test your connection out, if you notice a difference, leave it like that until the problem happens again, and if it happens again, go back into the router, and try channel 6,     test it out.  and then finally 1 if the first two don't work.

Also take a look at page 2 of Actiontec's Wireless PDF File.  It gives you some idea's with regards to position and orientation of where the router sits and how it can best be positioned for maximum coverage.

  http://support.actiontec.com/doc_files/MI424WR_Rev(all)_Wireless_Networking_Guide.pdf

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