djfake;568101 Wrote: 
> Did more than once. 
> 
> Using iStumbler, there are no other wifis on my broadcast channel.

They don't have to be on your channel.

When the channels for Wifi were figured out, they were made to
overlap.

Channel 6, for example, makes a nice curve and puts noise in channels
4,5,7 and 8 as well as 6.  (This was because if you're sloppy in the
transmissions, parts don't need to be as precise, and you can be sloppy
in the receiver portions too.)

Likewise, 1 uses 1,2 and 3, and 11 users 9, 10 and 11 (they also use
frequencies above/below but those aren't channels).

So if you're on 6 and a neighbor is on 5, you will have cross traffic.

And, of course, things like Baby Monitors, Cordless Phones, TV
extenders, Microwave ovens, Burglar Alarms, RC toys, etc, don't
recognize wifi channels at all and like spitting where ever they wish
in the 2.5Ghz range.


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