Wii Wireless Range?

[Surfrider77]

Anyone have issues with their Wii's wireless range?

I can place my laptop (Internal WiFi) nearly anywhere downstairs in my living room and pick up 2 bars and good connectivity. My Wii however, I have to place on the top of my television set and it only gets 1 bar and shows red in connectivity.

When I initiate a connectivity test, it comes up successful but when I try and update it gives an error about connectivity.

Does anyone else find their Wii range sucks?

[SolidxSnake]

Mine is fine, it's a floor under my router. Maybe it's getting some interference or something? Try switching wireless channels on your router.

[FudgeNuggets]

I've got a pretty darned strong router (Linksys SRX400) but Mine is probably 30 feet and a floor/story away from the router and is fine.

[NsOmNiA91130]

Around 40 feet away, perfect signal. I get 3 bars on my DS at around 35 feet in the same room.

[Surfrider77]

I am in the process of getting a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router set up to try and expand the range. (firmwre upgrade) My router is one floor up and maybe 40ft diagonal distance to the Wii. I have even tried setting the wireless antenna on the router parallel to the floor to see if it made a difference, but then I lose the signal entirely.

Soon as my RMA'd WRT54GL arrives, I am hoping for better results.

I was simply curious if the Wii has inherently weak reception over other wireless devices.

[FudgeNuggets]

Not to my knowledge. Another thing to look for is any other 2.4ghz devices in your house like cordless phones and microwaves. I replaced all my 2.4ghz phones with 5.8ghz phones and my signal strength does drop a couple of bars when the nuke is running.