Wireless routers – it’s all about positioning

I wrote yesterday about the terrible bandwidth problems I’m having in London – tonight my wireless signal in the house was dreadful. I’m used to the attenuating effect of Victorian masonry (we lived in an old house when we were in England) – but surely it was never this bad. It was almost like having a century old Faraday cage built into the house.

I thought about this some – and realised that things had only changed in the last day; no it’s not my laptop; no there’s no new software.. what could it be?

Ah – the wireless router has been place ‘out of sight’ behind a steel filing cabinet.. Hmm.

I repositioned it – and full signal restored 🙂