On Monday 02 January 2006 09:51, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon January 2 2006 12:32 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
I've got 2.4Ghz wireless phones all over the house!!! the base station is less than 10 feet from my router.
As an experiment, turn off the 2.4Ghz phones (baby monitors, microwaves, etc) and see if WiFi works. If it does start working reliably then consider:
right now, of course the laptop is sitting 4 feet from the router, everything is working and I have a 94% connection. IF I move it to the living room, or outside on the porch, and I run into problems, I'll either move the base station or change the channel, or BOTH.
1) changing the channel WiFi uses. That should solve the phone issue if there is one 2) moving the WiFi access point and phone base station further away from each other 3) 5.8Ghz phones?... they probably won't interfere with anything for a few months!
I'm not replacing these phones any time soon, unless they break :)
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
Although my phones are 5.8Ghz, and our son is 16, so no baby monitors, this hint may have given me the answer to my problem. My ISP is wireless, and I have a wireless antenna for them on the back of the house. I've been running my network on the same channel as they are, as well as a couple of neighbours that pop up in the scan from time to time. This may be the cause of interference that leads to signal drops. In my previous contacts with Linksys, they had had me decrease my beacon interval, and rts and fragmentation threshholds. This did help reduce the drop rate, but not eliminate it. Testing the new channel to see if that's it for me. On my scans, no one else is using it in the area. Thanks for the hint. Bernd