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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?"
Try not to put your finger on the antenna. Ask an iphone 4 user for why that is a bad thing.
Lookie here. We done caught us some commie spies. You know what we do to commie spies? We shoot them, that's what we do. Then we go out and find some more, and shoot them, too !!
I once had wireless internet from a local ISP. Between myself and the tower was a ham radio operator that evidently likes to walk all over the frequencies. I could never get the douche bag to quit fucking things up on a regular basis.
Steve's Computer Service, Hobbs, NM
Imagine if your neighbor tried that with TV...
<PersonA> Your interfering with my television during prime time..
<Neighbor> Pls Nevermind the interference.
<PersonA> But I want to watch Fox news and you're completely scrambling it.....
<Neighbor> Feh. Then go watch CNN instead, it's on a different channel and will probably work. Problem solved.
niggers!
Good idea, only your over looking that for some people even a $5 dollar card can be out of their budget, even for the time needed to resell it. Likely not the case this time but not everyone has spare money to throw a problem.