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On 15/11/12 23:14, Kevin Lucas wrote:
I donât know what it is! I donât have an android phone - no-one here seems to have one. It may be a farm worker with one I suppose but I need to be able to locate it to find out.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 tomThat'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? RegardsMy 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 tomIs it an Android phone being a Wireless hotspot?
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