Wifi reception extremely weak

[chaz2400]

It seems my wifi reception on my Icon is EXTREMELY weak, if existent at all, after I upgraded to 8.1. I have a wireless hotspot directly outside of my office and have tested other devices including a Surface, iPad and a friend's Android device. They all get full signal. My Icon now shows one bar if I am lucky and consistently drops the connection. It is a secure WPA2 connection. Anyone else seeing this or have ideas? Thanks.

 

[ven07]

Yes most of us have had this problem as well! Hope it goes back to normal after a while.. I have a 925

 

[Laura Knotek]

I haven't noticed any differences on my 920. My WiFi network (also WPA2 Personal) stays connected when I'm in the car outside my apartment.

 

[Thomas Ozawa]

Maybe you should reboot your wifi rooter

 

[jjmurphy]

Same problem here, every device but my 1520 has great wifi signal. I'm hoping that we'll see some small updates over the next couple of weeks to address these issues.

 

[Lost_Cosmonaut]

Seems to be an issue with the Icon, I'm having the same problem. I still get a working WiFi connection, it just shows little or no bars.

 

[ven07]

It isn't due to the router.. It's just the phone and new update.. The wifi still works as well as could, but the phone just show less bars

 

[Ebuka Allison]

That's because the phone now shows many bars you're actually getting.

 

[ven07]

That's because the phone now shows many bars you're actually getting.

LOL sure with wp 8 I got full bars, but suddenly wp 8.1 I get less and you want me to believe sth is wrong with my router? No sir

 

[Lost_Cosmonaut]

That's because the phone now shows many bars you're actually getting.

Right, because within 50ft of the router I should be only getting one bar? Sure.

 

[anon(4054009)]

Right, because within 50ft of the router I should be only getting one bar? Sure.

My Icon is having WiFi issues after updating. Low signal like one bar next to router, connecting automatically, got a good error message today that my router had no internet connectivity, yet 6 other devices were happy. I had to toggle on/off to fix that. Another issue is router handoffs, I have three routers to extend my home network. Since the update the phone will not switch to the stronger signal, keeps a very slow poor connection to the first router it connected to. This wasn't a problem before. Still I really like the update, and don't mind dealing with "beta" issues.

 

[Lost_Cosmonaut]

My Icon is having WiFi issues after updating. Low signal like one bar next to router, connecting automatically, got a good error message today that my router had no internet connectivity, yet 6 other devices were happy. I had to toggle on/off to fix that. Another issue is router handoffs, I have three routers to extend my home network. Since the update the phone will not switch to the stronger signal, keeps a very slow poor connection to the first router it connected to. This wasn't a problem before. Still I really like the update, and don't mind dealing with "beta" issues.

Yeah, I'm sure it's something that they are going to fix. As I said, mine only shows one or two bars but I still have connectivity.

 

[ven07]

There is good news.. My phone now jumps to a full bar for a while So this might just be a temp issue

 

[Ebuka Allison]

LOL sure with wp 8 I got full bars, but suddenly wp 8.1 I get less and you want me to believe sth is wrong with my router? No sir

8.0 never showed the signal strength.

 

[ven07]

8.0 never showed the signal strength.

Oh well it did for me on my home and work wifi

 

[SeannyFunco]

I'm noticing on my 925 at my job that the WiFi connection shows lost signal. However when I go into WiFi settings it says "can't connect to internet" but is still connected to the SSID. If I bring up the context menu and say, "Disconnect" and then tap the name of my WiFi network again, it will reconnect immediately with full signal and connect to the internet just fine. Just wanted to throw my experience out there to see if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. At my home, I do not experience this behavior.

 

[Digital Moe]

Oh well it did for me on my home and work wifi

No what it showed you was that you had a Wifi connection the bars never went up or down, you had to go into WiFi settings to see the actual strength it used to drive me nuts. Now 8.1 shows you actual signal strength.

 

[ven07]

No what it showed you was that you had a Wifi connection the bars never went up or down, you had to go into WiFi settings to see the actual strength it used to drive me nuts. Now 8.1 shows you actual signal strength.

Still no If I had a bad wifi conncetion the bars did show me on 8 I know cuz the Wifi at my college is pretty weak from time to time and my bars always showed me that

 

[Ebuka Allison]

Nope. I have an 8.0 phone and its all or nothing

 

[Digital Moe]

Still no If I had a bad wifi conncetion the bars did show me on 8 I know cuz the Wifi at my college is pretty weak from time to time and my bars always showed me that

No it was static, it might have changed in a later update but when I had a Lumia 920 from launch until last July the WiFi icon was static it never really showed you the actual strength.