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Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference?
Nicros writes "Almost every evening, between 8:30 and 10:00, my Wi-Fi just dies. This, in itself, could be explained by a crappy Wi-Fi source or some hardware failure, except that I know both of my neighbors are experiencing the same loss of signal at the same time. While the Wi-Fi is down, the LAN is OK, and anything plugged into Cat5 can access the Internet just fine. One possibility comes to mind — perhaps some other neighbor arrives home and turns on their router from 8:30 to 10:00? And something in their signal is hosing our Wi-Fi? I have tried looking around for software to help identify the source of interference, but either the programs are ridiculously expensive for a home user, or else my card (Intel Link 1000 BGN) isn't supported. (Netstumbler is an example of the latter.) Any suggestions on how I can track this down?"
Understand THIS - WE are the PUBLIC, and we outnumber you.
The airwaves belong to WE THE PEOPLE, not you the rich and powerful.
Right now you have your lobby groups and friends at the FCC to keep things set aside for you, but the truth of the matter is that ham radio occupies huge swaths of valuable spectrum and more and more people are learning about this every day. They're asking questions and writing to their represenatives and informing others on the internet, like I am doing right now. Your loss is inevitable! Hams get older and older and there are less and less of you every year. Your kind are dying and our kind are multiplying! You cannot win! Progress is unstoppable! You cannot seriously expect to continue to occupy billions of dollars worth of spectrum FOR FREE, and then slap us in the face by persisting in the use of ancient analog technologies for no reason other than your own whim! Right now the airwaves might serve a few hundred hams but when the public finally wakes up the FCC and the last ham radio is in the landfill (where it should have been 40 years ago!) those airwaves will serve MILLIONS of us! Once you are out of the way, internet access will be as free as air, the monopolies of old will come crashing down, and a new age will begin.
Killing ham radio is the first step. Ham radio is an analog, ancient throwback, a broken idea of a bygone age - Like eugenics, or racial prejudice. And like those it shall be killed and buried and forgotten forever by the enlightened, who will hear of it and remember with pity those poor misguided souls who once hung their hopes on the likes of Stalin and Hitler.
The FCC, the ITU, everyone who seeks to preserve the now, they will all be broken by the wheels of progress and smashed under the trampling feet of WE THE PEOPLE of the information age.
You have no hope! We shall be victorious! (By any means necessary!)