Mark Lanctot;172479 Wrote: 
> Definitely.  Sounds like you're being out-competed by your neighbors. 
> Perhaps someone brought in a pre-n router and it's blanking yours out.
> 
> You may want to look into directional/high-gain antennas for your
> router.

Actually, thinking about it (and having cooled down a bit :-)), there's
a chance that our own central heating might be the (or a) culprit. 
Though I've had the SB3 for over a year, I didn't start using flac
heavily until recent months, and we didn't turn the heating on until
quite late this year.  That said, the last little bits of misbehaviour
I recorded last night happened after the heating had turned off for the
night.

How could I tell (in NetStumbler, say) whether another router is
"pre-n" (does this mean "11n capable"?) or whether mine is being
swamped?  I've not seen the SNR of anyone else get near mine. (Right
now, mid-50s, others tend to be 20 or lower, and my Signal+ is -42,
others are circa -80. Then again, everything's working fine right now.)
Also, if someone (like me) isn't broadcasting their SSID,  will
NetStumbler show them at all?

We've one adjoining neighbour, and another house on the other side.
There's a road opposite our house, so there are no other houses that
near; yet right now NetStumbler lists 7 other networks (though only 1
of these is active right now).  I remember though that even my iPaq
could see our network half-way down the road opposite (even if it still
couldn't work in the back garden :-( ).

Another thing I've yet to try is to reposition the router - it's rather
surrounded by cabinets and bits of computer at the moment! Not quite
sure where else it will fit, though...

-- Brian


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