Let me start off by saying this may have just been some quirk of my EVO, who knows, but here is what happened.
My office is upstairs and my N router is downstairs. My wireless on my PC gets a 90% signal here and about 6.8 Mbps download speed (which is pretty much what our provider gives us so that's cool).
Ok, I was noticing that my EVO was only getting about 1 bar of wireless sitting just a foot or so from where my computer was getting 90%. Also, I ran Xtremelabs Speedtest and was only getting 1.5 Mbps - fail!
I was like what the heck is the deal here? So anyway, I just happened to have some aluminum foil sitting nearby and I wondered what would happen if I made a little aluminum foil dome over my phone and ran the speed test.
Well, my wireless signal more than doubled and my download speed jumped to 6 Mbps! Cool, but here is the WEIRD part. After I took the little foil dome off, the phone's reception REMAINED AWESOME!
It was like running that speedtest with the foil dome somehow "woke up" my wireless radio and now it rocks even without the dome - yep, weird.
So, if you are having a weak wireless connection, try making a little dish from aluminum foil and putting your phone between it and your router and then running speedtest and see if things don't improve after that.
P.S., I'm not claiming any miraculous breakthrough here or that this means anything at all, it just worked for me. Good luck.
My office is upstairs and my N router is downstairs. My wireless on my PC gets a 90% signal here and about 6.8 Mbps download speed (which is pretty much what our provider gives us so that's cool).
Ok, I was noticing that my EVO was only getting about 1 bar of wireless sitting just a foot or so from where my computer was getting 90%. Also, I ran Xtremelabs Speedtest and was only getting 1.5 Mbps - fail!
I was like what the heck is the deal here? So anyway, I just happened to have some aluminum foil sitting nearby and I wondered what would happen if I made a little aluminum foil dome over my phone and ran the speed test.
Well, my wireless signal more than doubled and my download speed jumped to 6 Mbps! Cool, but here is the WEIRD part. After I took the little foil dome off, the phone's reception REMAINED AWESOME!
It was like running that speedtest with the foil dome somehow "woke up" my wireless radio and now it rocks even without the dome - yep, weird.
So, if you are having a weak wireless connection, try making a little dish from aluminum foil and putting your phone between it and your router and then running speedtest and see if things don't improve after that.
P.S., I'm not claiming any miraculous breakthrough here or that this means anything at all, it just worked for me. Good luck.