When I first got my wireless AP it was great - I could pretty much sit anywhere in the apartment and get a reliable connection.
But as my neighbors started getting wireless access points Ive found the connection has gotten worse. Now I am limited to where I can use the wifi connection. If I do a scan in the front of the apartment I see 5 maybe 6 access points nearby. Im convinced those APs interfere with mine. Because Im using wifi on laptops (that may travel from time to time) I have them configured to connect to the nearest AP but sometimes this isn't mine (in fact, one weekend I worked for 3 hours straight before noticing I was using someone else's access point!). I was just wondering what sort of techniques people recommend for combatting this? Im thinking I may have to buy some antennas (Buffalo?) or maybe invest in powerline ethernet devices and move my AP closer to the center of the apartment (right now its close to my router which is at the back of the aprtment). I have tried configuring different channels on the AP and did not see any difference in signal/noise ratios. Any ideas? -- -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
