ADSL signal strength

I am really hoping someone on here can answer me a question regarding the signal strength of an ADSL line. Basically what I would like to know is do you either get ADSL or not or do you get different strengths of ADSL signal.

At the moment my broadband is dropping on a regular basis, every five to ten minutes or so unless I sit on top of the wireless router like now. Anything other than 5 feet away and away it goes. The internal wireless card will not even pick up the signal from next to the router.

I have tried three different routers, purchased a wireless card for the laptop and now two range extender ariels but none of this makes any difference. Could it just be that I have a dodgy ADSL line because my PC will not pick up the signal either yet they used to pick up my wireless broadband easily without any dropouts.

Sounds far more like a problem with your wireless router however your post is very confused.

Andrew

The first thing to do is set up a hard wired connection and test. There are too many possible anomolies with wireless.
If that drops out, then you need to check all internal wiring and equipment. How you approach this depends on whether or not you have an NTE5 master socket. If you have, undo the two screws, remove the lower faceplate and connect directly to the hidden test that will be revealed.
If you don't have an NTE5 you'll need to physically disconnect all internal wiring before plugging into the master socket.

Are you saying that

you have a wireless ADSL router and that

your laptop needs to be close to that router to communicate OK over wireless?

Yes my laptop needs to be close to the router otherwise it just drops out. And my pc upstairs has no chance.

What I was trying to find out is if you get either an ADSL signal or not or if you can have a different strength signal that can affect the output signal.

In other words does ADSL work that you can have a strong signal in so a strong one out, a weak signal in so a weak signal out or do you just get an ADSL signal

The problem is though that a hard wired connection should always work over three feet of cable but can you get a weak ADSL signal as opposed to a strong one.

I do have a master socket but surely you can't connect directly as you would need to put in a microfilter then connect.

Sorry but I just can't see that as I have tried three separate routers and they all fail to give me a strong, uninterrupted signal.

It sounds like your problem is not with ADSL but with your wireless connection.

When people speak about wireless ADSL routers they mean a box which contains an ADSL modem, a router subsystem, and a wireless subsystem.

You need to check your aerials are fitted properly. They can come loose.

If this is a new problem perhaps something has changed around you like a neighbour also using the same channel. Some wireless ADSL models let you pick radio channels in auto mode to help prevent this problem.

Also, my pc upstairs will connect to an unsecured network from a neighbour. I don't know whose and don't know where but it has to be a lot further away than mine. My pc upstairs only shows one bar for this but my network shows five bars and still won't connect to it.

Thanks John2007

I have tried three different routers. Two linksys, one buffalo, all with the same problem. I have also changed ariels, added strong strength ariels and all to no avail. I can pick up loads of signals from neighbours all but one security enabled. The open network I can connect to with both my laptop and pc although it supposedly is a lower strength signal.