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On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 19:31 +0000, tom wrote: > On 15/11/12 17:05, bad apple wrote: > > On 15/11/12 16:33, tom wrote: > >> I live in the sticks and am having weird wifi problems! > >> It seems to be another router broadcasting on the same channel as mine > >> - mine is set to choose an empty channel but this one joins in! And > >> this seems to upset everything. > >> My neighbours (20yds way) donât seem to thing its them and the nearest > >> other neighbours are 1/2mile away but line of site. > >> I have a few machines a few yards apart so was wondering if anyone > >> knew of a way of triangulating to see where its coming from so I can > >> pop round and see if I cant set them up differently? > >> Tom te tom te tom > >> > > That's... odd. It would be easier just to scan and see what channels are > > currently in use - presumably it's going to be only your neighbour and > > yourself for a total of 2 channels (1 if they are both broadcasting on > > the same channel as they seem to be). Now set your router to broadcast > > on a different channel instead. Job done - you don't need to mess around > > with triangulation or anything like that. > > > > Are you sure your neighbours haven't accidentally put their router into > > repeater mode or something stupid like that? > > > > Regards > > > My router was set to find whatever channel was free. 1 was free then the > other router - definitely not mine - came on on the same channel. > I set my router to 2 and the other router - definitely not mine - came > on again later on channel 2. SO I set mine to find a free channel again... > Its 30db down or so on my signal according to iwlist and quality for my > cell tends to run at ~50/70 and it was down at 17/70 from this machine. > Its not there all the time but when it pops up the wifi goes > reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly slow and is v unreliable. > Tom te tom te tom > > Is it an Android phone being a Wireless hotspot? -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq