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The box is an x230 with the Intel 6250 card, two antennae as it has the camera.

We are staying with some friends in their basement apartment and I cannot get onto their wireless (two floors above) from the apartment. If I go outside and sit on the deck that looks into the room with the wireless router I easily connect. I can then go back to the basement and maintain the connection (3 bars). If I put the machine to sleep when I re-connect, no signal.

My wife with her 3 year old Dell Latitude has no problems connecting form the basement. I see Intel has a more contemporary driver (16.1.1) than the one Lenovo installed, but when I go to Lenovo they tell me that my driver (15.9.0.5) is their newest.

Ideas??

Try this:
Start > [right-click] Computer > Properties > Device Manager > Network Adapters > [Select your wireless adapter, e.g. Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6250 or similar] > Advanced (tab) > Set “Roaming Aggressiveness” to Highest (default is Medium), then set “Transmit Power” to Highest (default).

You might also experiment with the “Preferred Band” Settings, which permit a choice between 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz. Default is No Preference.

Be sure to record your existing settings before you make any changes.

stuartf wrote:The box is an x230 with the Intel 6250 card, two antennae as it has the camera.

We are staying with some friends in their basement apartment and I cannot get onto their wireless (two floors above) from the apartment. If I go outside and sit on the deck that looks into the room with the wireless router I easily connect. I can then go back to the basement and maintain the connection (3 bars). If I put the machine to sleep when I re-connect, no signal.

My wife with her 3 year old Dell Latitude has no problems connecting form the basement. I see Intel has a more contemporary driver (16.1.1) than the one Lenovo installed, but when I go to Lenovo they tell me that my driver (15.9.0.5) is their newest.

Ideas??

Seems to have worked a treat, many thanks and kudos!

You're welcome, glad to hear it is up and running again. My other suggestion would have been to ask your host to re-orient the antenna on the wireless router so that the signal might have more-directional propagation toward the basement area. Keep that in mind should the signal drop out again.