Who's connecting wirelessly right now?

[Chmee]

In the back yard, cooling down to the 70's after a hot day, kicking back with a cold one ...

[The Cleric]

Me. In the dark, alone, in the living room of a house I don't sleep at.

[McC]

In my apartment, with the router in my roommate's room. Pepetually wireless

[Superman]

I can, I just choose not to at the moment. I use a T Mobile Sidekick.

[Praxis]

In the back yard, cooling down to the 70's after a hot day, kicking back with a cold one ...

Mesa. Though my desktop is plugged directly in, everything else is wireless.

[Alan Bolte]

Parents wouldn't let me run a wire from the cable box in another room (neither through the hall or through the walls) so I'm stuck with wireless. It's rather annoying, because it cuts out fairly often due to interference.

[McC]

Parents wouldn't let me run a wire from the cable box in another room (neither through the hall or through the walls) so I'm stuck with wireless. It's rather annoying, because it cuts out fairly often due to interference.

Get a booster and some better antennae than the stock antennae that came with the router.

[Faram]

Hmm I am at work, connecting through a wireless AP using RDP to controll my computer at home also using a wireless connection.

Do that count?

[Alan Bolte]

Parents wouldn't let me run a wire from the cable box in another room (neither through the hall or through the walls) so I'm stuck with wireless. It's rather annoying, because it cuts out fairly often due to interference.

Get a booster and some better antennae than the stock antennae that came with the router.

Well, I didn't want to mention this, but the most common cause of interference is our cordless phone. I didn't think to check what frequencies the two used when I bought the router. Outside of the phone, it's more likely for the router to misteriously stop transmitting than it is for my conn to break due to interference. Mind you, that happens no less than once a week. Tech support wasn't terribly helpful, though I probably ought to try again.

[McC]

Well, I didn't want to mention this, but the most common cause of interference is our cordless phone. I didn't think to check what frequencies the two used when I bought the router. Outside of the phone, it's more likely for the router to misteriously stop transmitting than it is for my conn to break due to interference. Mind you, that happens no less than once a week. Tech support wasn't terribly helpful, though I probably ought to try again.

Tech support is typically worthless in my experience. A few ideas to try:

1) Wireless routers operate at 2.4 GHz, as do some phones. Phones that operate at 900 MHz and 5.6 GHz (newest phones) will not interfere.

2) You have available something in excess of 10 channels to choose from. Commonly, channel 6 is the one selected for your use. Try changing the channel your router uses (check your router's documentation for how to do this) to see if you can get a better performance out of it.

3) A signal booster will still help. However, given your situation, you run the risk of creating interference for your phone instead.

4) Period router cut-out is something I've experienced too, and I honestly don't know what caused it. I used to use a B-router and now use a G-router (my roommate's), which has had no such problems, so I can only think to suggest either upgrading your router's firmware or switching from B to G. I suspect, however, that this relates to interference.

[Dahak]

I could use WLAN, but I choose not to, as the damned thing is standing roughly 1.5 meters away from the computer would regularly after several hours of normal use decides to not work. Dunno what it is, either the WLAN card and the router won't talk to each other from that point, or the router gets introverted, but only a reboot solved it. Oh, and sometimes the WLAN card decided it was no g but a b card. Annoying little shit...

The cable is much more reliable.

[Alan Bolte]

<much snippage>
Phones that operate at 900 MHz and 5.6 GHz (newest phones) will not interfere.

Yeah, I guess I could buy my parents a new phone. Or not.

2)Try changing the channel your router uses

Unfortunately, this doesn't do any good. If I could stop the phone from randomly selecting channels it'd work great, but the phone doesn't appear to have that option.

3) A signal booster will still help. However, given your situation, you run the risk of creating interference for your phone instead.

That's precisely what makes me hesitent about buying one.

4) Period router cut-out is something I've experienced too, and I honestly don't know what caused it. I used to use a B-router and now use a G-router (my roommate's), which has had no such problems, so I can only think to suggest either upgrading your router's firmware or switching from B to G. I suspect, however, that this relates to interference.

That is so goddamn bizzare. Guess I should have gotten the more expensive router. Oh, and I already tried the firmware thing.

I think for now I'll just put up with my party bitching at me in WoW from time to time.

[Zac Naloen]

I gave up on my wireless, poor connection meant i was severely limited with bandwidth. I have a cable now.

[Chmee]

Basically all 3 of my home network pc's *can* be wireless, but I run the server & gaming desktop on ethernet 99% of the time, and the laptop when it's on the desk ... but when I surf from the sofa or outdoors, I go wireless.

[phongn]

I love unsecured wireless APs.