Broadcom 4313 Signal strength very low on an HP Pavilion dv4

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I have a HP pavilion dv4 4141US laptop running fresh ubuntu 11.10. This laptop has a broadcom 4313gn chipset for the network card. The network card is using the brcmsmac driver. Which, I heard else where on askUbuntu that its the best driver to be using for this card.

I can connect to my network, however I have extremely low network signal. Right now I am right in front of the router, and I only get 72%. If i go to the room directly behind the router's wall, i get no signal, where as with windows 7 I get a nice 70% percent.

UPDATE: I use WEP at home and an open wireless connection at work. Both have same result. Both are completely different routers. Also you G

What can i do?

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