Hey i'd like to know what range is the sensor bar supposed to have as I feel like mine has a quite low range.

Thanks

The range depends on your sensitivity settings. At the highest sensitivity, you get great pointer precision, but it also only works about 5-8 feet away before it does the jump-all-over thing. At the lowest sensitivity, you can get the pointer to work a good 20 feet away, but the precision's not so great.

yea it does seem like the range sucks, i don't have a number for you.

but i heard that the best thing to do is go out and buy another sensor bar, and place it directly on top of each other. This supposedly makes it so you can be like 20 feet away easily and it is perfect with no flutters ever. just what i heard, so don't base it on fact

Range, as in the angle it works or the distance between sensor bar and Wii remote?

Talking about the range of the sensor bar itself is a little misleading, since all it is a couple of sets of IR LED:s. If you have problems with the Wii Remote, you could try to set the sensitivity in the Wii settings and see if that helps.

The sensor bar is just an infra-red emitter. You can either buy a 3rd party sensor bar that is stronger and gain a few feet, or you can do what irstupid suggested which will give you even more distance.

Also, you could make your own sensor bar and it wouldn't be too hard or expensive if you have the tools and know how to solder.

that's interesting. But the Wii only has one slot to plug a Sensor bar into, so how could that work, unless the unplugged bar helps the plugged in one somehow but I don't have the brain power obviously to grasp how that could happen.

the sensor bar is only an infared light.  the only reason it is plugged into the wii is for power.  but since only 1 slot, yes you can't get another nintendo sensor bar that needs to be plugged in but buy a 3rd party one that uses batteries, or wireless or whatever.  Or as said before make your own infared lights however you want

Have a candlelit supper and use the candles as IR emitters.

How far are you away?

Because it should easily work up to 5 metres away... I didn't realise use Europeans had living rooms big enough to go that far away.

If you are closer than 1 meter away, then it will be difficult to use because it's really sensitive.... if you are further than 5 metres then you may hev to take the advice of some of the others here.

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What would be best is of you could take a photo of your set-up, preferably both from where you sit to play, and from 1 side so we can see the distance easier... this will enable us to give better advice about what you should do.

Thanks for the tips guys, greatly helps. Looks like my old Wiimote (one of the firsts, didn't even came with jacket) has a lower range than the newer one I've got.

I took the time to put my sensor bar in a better position and it seems that my poiting just got better.