Wireless Network Interference

One of my older (tongue in cheek), cynical thoughts was that someday, somebody was going to push their grage door opener button and take down the whole neighborhood. With all of the devices now operating in the 2.4 Ghz band, that idea is proving somewhat true….
To prevent some of the problems, make sure you go to the administrative page for your router and rename the wireless network. ( Do a Google search on your router model “default login” to find out how ) I have already encountered situations where multiple “linksys”’s exist and the folks wireless would flip to the other one without any notice.
One problem I have confirmed; but, don’t know how to fix, is that Nextel’s walkie talkie feature does interfere. You can listen to the periodic locator on your TV, many computers will pick it up and you’ll hear it in your speakers, and I have seen it clobber a wireless connection.
When outside interference clobbers your connection, it also does it in an insidious way. Either the router or your NIC become confused and, even though they still show a good connection, all TCP/IP traffic has been clobbered. Sometimes, it will fix itself; but, it is often faster to disable and enable to correct the problem.

One of my older (tongue in cheek), cynical thoughts was that someday, somebody was going to push their grage door opener button and take down the whole neighborhood. With all of the devices now operating in the 2.4 Ghz band, that idea is proving somewhat true….
To prevent some of the problems, make sure you go to the administrative page for your router and rename the wireless network. ( Do a Google search on your router model “default login” to find out how ) I have already encountered situations where multiple “linksys”’s exist and the folks wireless would flip to the other one without any notice.
One problem I have confirmed; but, don’t know how to fix, is that Nextel’s walkie talkie feature does interfere. You can listen to the periodic locator on your TV, many computers will pick it up and you’ll hear it in your speakers, and I have seen it clobber a wireless connection.
When outside interference clobbers your connection, it also does it in an insidious way. Either the router or your NIC become confused and, even though they still show a good connection, all TCP/IP traffic has been clobbered. Sometimes, it will fix itself; but, it is often faster to disable and enable to correct the problem.

Just veiwed your wired vs wireless take, thought that was cool but would like to ask for suggestions on how (the best way’s} I can go wireless with one repeater as I sit 0.5 miles from a cable connection. Sure DSL works ok out here but there are two systems here, and we like to videa chat with the grand kids who are 5y old. Have been trying to get up with the cable people to see what it will take to build a system if I open a ditch from point A to B, which would be the best option. Next option is to shoot a narrow beam to a repeater. I would like to keep this signal ibn the GHz range so as to keep with cable speed into the near furture say 5 to 10 years down the road. My parts outlet will be used militery gear down to ebay items.

Just veiwed your wired vs wireless take, thought that was cool but would like to ask for suggestions on how (the best way’s} I can go wireless with one repeater as I sit 0.5 miles from a cable connection. Sure DSL works ok out here but there are two systems here, and we like to videa chat with the grand kids who are 5y old. Have been trying to get up with the cable people to see what it will take to build a system if I open a ditch from point A to B, which would be the best option. Next option is to shoot a narrow beam to a repeater. I would like to keep this signal ibn the GHz range so as to keep with cable speed into the near furture say 5 to 10 years down the road. My parts outlet will be used militery gear down to ebay items.