My neighbor's router?

Hi all--

I have a problem and this isn't a W7 problem(because Vista fixed it automatically), but the people here are so knowledgeable I thought I'd post here.

EVERY time Paul, my neighbor, either signs on to his router or cell phone(I'm not sure which), I get bumped off my internet connection while using my laptop. And with W7, I now have to reset my router to reconnect.

What can I do to ignore his signal?

Thanks; sigh.

Fuentes said:

Hi all--

I have a problem and this isn't a W7 problem(because Vista fixed it automatically), but the people here are so knowledgeable I thought I'd post here.

EVERY time Paul, my neighbor, either signs on to his router or cell phone(I'm not sure which), I get bumped off my internet connection while using my laptop. And with W7, I now have to reset my router to reconnect.

What can I do to ignore his signal?

Thanks; sigh.

Hi Fuentes and welcome


Easy, Change the channel the router is using. If you tell us what router we can give you some help. I have had to do it twice here.

Let us know

Ken J+

Fuentes said:

Hi Ken--
It's a Linksys WRT54G router. If I go into the router configuration, what do I need to change to correct the problem? I'm a little nervous in that particular area. All I have are a desktop and a laptop, and as far as I know, I only get bumped when using my laptop.
I was on channel 6 and have since changed it to channel 11.
Thanks Ken, thanks all.

EDIT: I realize it's only been a day or two, but thanks Ken, your suggestion seems to have cleared up the network confusion.

Glad it worked. I was just coming back to check

Ken J+

Nice work Ken, I was wondering if those channels were good for anything, looks like they are there for a reason.

Update: Buddy Paul showed up again yesterday, even after switching to channel 11. This morning, I changed to channel 1, and guess what?
Bumped again!

Any other ideas?
As usual, thanks all.

joeykhor said:

hey, if you dont want your neighbour to connect to your wireless connection anymore, then why dont just add password to the wireless connection

He isn't connecting to my bandwidth, just knocking me off mine.

Dwarf wrote:Are you saying that it is only your laptop that gets bumped off? What happens if you have both online at the same time?

Just my laptop gets bumped Dwarf.

Resite your router as far from your neighbours as possible, and if the problems don't stop at this point then try fitting a lower gain wifi antenna on your router (or turning down the Tx power both on the router and your WiFi cards) if channel switching, and attenuation, isn't curing the problems all alone.

Look carefully at your AP settings and your WiFi cards advanced parametres too.

If you still have no joy then speak to your neighbour and explain that the only resort left open to you is to complain to the authorities responsible for regulation of WiFi and other domestic emisions which cause interference.