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Laptop looses 1/3 of wifi signal strength when the laptop moves through a door. Distance to router at that point is 10 feet. Wall is conventional wood-framed. On both sides of the wal there are fully...
Sounds about right to me. From what you describe the wifi is going through a wall plus two layers of books plus steel shelving. Remember wifi does not go around corners.
And diffraction is not "going round corners" as most people understand it, just a red herring from someone who would rather throw in a cheap jibe than follow the issue.
Back to the point, following your earlier response, we don't know which wifi band the user has on the laptop. If they are on 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz might give better range.
Nor do we know if this signal loss affects their experience. Maybe they have just found a signal meter and want to play with numbers.
Definitely not just playing around :-(
The experience in question is the dropping of the internet connection. As it happens, there is another laptop with a hard-wired connection, so I know that when the laptop user is complaining that its not the internet that's the problem/