>From an old post of mine when I was seeing "random dropouts". I root caused much of my trouble to the microwave oven:
avoiding Microwave oven and adjacent WLAN Interference -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I looked into things tonight. My Microwave oven is running at 2450MHz. This is approximately WiFi channel 8.5 . Turn out I was using channel 7 on my WLAN. It makes sense that I get interference from the microwave. I doubt a the WiFi recevier has that great of rejection to strong energy only 1.5 channels away, Also, I am no expert on Microwave ovens, but I suspect the are not the most spectrally pure of noise generators. Running at 2450MHz, they are still probably pumpin out some junk at 7 or 8 MHz away. So then what channel should I use? To answer that question I took my laptop computer and used it as a receiver to measure my neighbors WiFi Channels they are using. I am in ear shot of signals from my neighbors on channels 1, 3, 6 (several folks on Ch 6), and 11. So, I changed my WLAN to channel 4. Seems to be a channel that no one near by uses and best of all, no more drop outs when my wife runs the microwave oven! -- Zten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1810 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33630 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
