iPod touch How good is the Wi-Fi reception on the iPod touch??

[anti-microsoft]

Is it as good as a MacBooks (using b/g)? Is it greater is it less??

Thanks,

AMS

 

[RollTide]

mine is less than a macbook, that being said I can still connect at school when some people's compaq's and dells cant

 

[anti-microsoft]

mine is less than a macbook, that being said I can still connect at school when some people's compaq's and dells cant

Haha cool! thanks mate!

 

[lofight]

It's fast, fast enough, but slower than Macbook..

 

[anti-microsoft]

It's fast, fast enough, but slower than Macbook..

Yeah it's amazing how fast it is for such a small device

 

[TheQuestion]

Is it as good as a MacBooks (using b/g)? Is it greater is it less??

Thanks,

AMS

I'm sorry, but it isn't clear if you mean speed or signal strength. I find both to be lacking compared to the Macbook, but still acceptable.

 

[anti-microsoft]

I'm sorry, but it isn't clear if you mean speed or signal strength. I find both to be lacking compared to the Macbook, but still acceptable.

I mean signal strength but thanks anyway.

 

[dellavoce]

I have no complaints. It's nearly as fast as my computer.

 

[cwolves]

I get 37' with my iPod touch, 52' with my laptop (an IBM thinkpad) and 41' with a little network finder gadget.

 

[Windleaf2]

I found the wifi fast as a speeding bullet at the locations I visit.

 

[leckie]

I live in a three story house with the router on the bottom floor and I get full bars in my bedroom at the top.

 

[jmpmntwnty3]

I was in a store and there's McDonald's across the street ...

... you have to account for the huge parking lot of the store I was in AND the fact that the "street" is 4 lanes, in addition to the McDonald's parking lot ...

... and I didn't get full reception, but I did get at least a bar or two. Enough to detect the network and browse at reasonable speeds. So I'd say the reception is pretty damn good lol

 

[GT41]

I've found my that my touch has lost signal quite often even when very close to my router. So far I've found it a little disappointing in terms of signal strength.

 

[dcv]

I stood right next to a BT OpenZone wireless access point at Heathrow Airport last week and my touch couldn't even detect it

 

[hubble1990]

I have a netgear wireless router set up in the lounge and can get 3 out of the 4 bars when I'm upstairs (two flights) considering there's solid stone walls and the flooring materials, I think that's pretty good indeed.

 

[pab277]

it all depends on the router's signal strength. But i have found that the Wi-Fi reception on the iPod is simply amazing. It detects about 7 wifi signals from neighbors and such at my house, while my laptop can only detect 4. Sure, it wont connect to them since their routers are pretty far away, but it still found them :]

so what im saying is yes, for a portable device such as this one, wifi is great.

 

[xXriderXx7]

I agree with most of the replies.
For being such a tiny device, the wifi signal is great. I constantly get full bars wherever I am in my house.

 

[mavis]

IMO the reception on this thing isn't that great, but it's ok ...

About as good as my PSP (although useable, whereas the PSP's Internet was more of a novelty ... )

 

[weckart]

I was delighted to find that it supports 80.211n, as this is what my router is set to exclusively. Rendering pages is slower than my Macbook, but this is probably due to the much less powerful cpu in the iPod Touch.

 

[anti-microsoft]

I was delighted to find that it supports 80.211n, as this is what my router is set to exclusively. Rendering pages is slower than my Macbook, but this is probably due to the much less powerful cpu in the iPod Touch.

R u sure? Your router is probably an a/b/g/n so the touch detected it.

 

[weckart]

R u sure? Your router is probably an a/b/g/n so the touch detected it.

It is a Netgear with b/g/n capability. The settings are n-only, meaning that b/g devices cannot connect, which helps to keep potential passing hackers away, until hardware generally catches up with the latest technology. My old Dell, for instance, which has b/g only cannot log into the signal. The iPod Touch has no problem whatsoever.

[edit] looking at the settings again, I may have been too hasty - it talks of n optimisation, not exclusivity. Still, it would not explain why my Dell cannot connect at this setting.