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Originally Posted by fotze
Thanks. There is an small apartment building next door and there are up to 7 wireless networks at a time going. I can sometime connect to the non-secured ones but they seem just as choppy.
I will look up to see how to change the channel. I am assuming this is analagous to a cordless phone and switching channels.
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The settings in routers are all different. On mine there is a box that, when you click on it shows you the list of different channels and you pick one. Almost everybody uses the default. I got playing around with it because my cordless phone would knock off my connection when it was used. I tried seeing if a different channel would work better.
Here is a link that explains things a bit better than me.
(Edit: for all you geeks: I use a Linksys WRT54G with HyperWRT firmware and was able to bump up the antenna power to get a very nice connection throughout my house. Previously, in my front room I would get occasional drops.)
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Last edited by Bobblehead; 11-09-2006 at 11:52 AM.
Reason: Added geek info
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