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Escaping WiFi Interference In The Modern Dorm Room?
j.cherney writes "I recently moved my son up to a dorm at Michigan State University. We set up a wireless router (D-link) and everything worked well-until the rest of the dorm moved in. Now he is getting intermittent outages which I am quite sure is related to the large numbers of cordless phones on the 2.4ghz frequency. So my question to everyone is: Is there anything that I can do to make wireless work in this environment? Obviously I'm not willing to buy everyone in the dorm a new cordless phone! Is one brand more resistant to interference than another? Is there a filter than can be installed? Or is he S.O.L.?"
> or get a different antenna. :-)
> The router/nic will listen to whatever is loudest. Go pick up a bigger antenna. 7dbi should do it.
Yes, because if everyone got a bigger antenna that would go a long way towards solving wifi interference problems... genius man, pure genius.
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It could be due to huge numbers of people "stealing" his wireless. No, really--those cheapie consumer broadband routers don't fare well with more than a handful of simultaneous users. I'll bet a lot of people are turning on their laptops and finding that wonderful little connected icon in the bottom right and not thinking twice. Even with in-room connections, sometimes it's hard to get your ass off that bed :)
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
Can you point me to an exchangable antenna selection for my cordless phone? Umm, yeah, I did not think so...
A bigger antenna could solve his problem within his dorm room because it will reduce the interference with the phones that are stuck with their little antennas.
This device is the simplest solution to your problem.
No, I'm not kidding.