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16 different wireless networks in my living room!
Hey everyone,
I Didnt actually look very much for a thread similar to this one so maybe its been posted somewhere and i just fail but here is my problem. Ive been having VERY bad wireless dropouts... and its not just the internet either i lose my connection to my router intirely. When im sitting in my living room with inSSIDer running there is 16 different wireless networks detecting using multiple different channels.
I setup a continuous ping to my router(192.168.1.1) and started messing with channels... most channels i only have a connection for about 45 seconds and it doesnt reconnect for about 30 seconds... i finally found that with channel 5, i had a connection for about 5-10 minutes(I spent HOURS today testing all the different channels so these are rough averages) but like before i lose connection for about 30 seconds.
Now if i was just checking email and surfing the web it wouldnt be so bad but i listen to streaming music and watch shows on hulu and what not and losing my connection every few minutes for 30 seconds it TOTALLY unacceptable!
So at first i thought this was my old router(Linksys WRT54G) Which was admittedly 10 years old so i went a bought a new one, a WRT120N(Linksys again) I did all my testing with my new router(as with my old one, no matter what channel i was unable to connect at all anymore this progressively got worse over the coarse of about a week) I consider myself to have a pretty high understanding of networking technology but this literally has me at my wits end.(I ran a scan with inSSIDer and found ZERO 5Ghz networks but none of my computers support a 5Ghz connection and i do not have the money to buy that many adaters)
Sorry for the wall of text but i was trying to be as detailed as possible, If anyone has any ideas aside from hacking all my neighbors(Most use WEP, it wouldnt be that hard, but i dont think its a very "Legal" idea) and changing all their channels to 1 and setting mine to 11... but seriously im open to any suggestions!
Thanks in advance,
~Chris