Many fail to understand that their router broadcasts more than adequately but it is competition with neighbour�s wifi that plays havoc with their wifi connections?

Wifi Analyzer is a free app for android phones, which shows you who/what, is using which wifi channel.

My setup does not disconnect because my router has 14 channels, where most have 12 at most, so on channel 13 my kit is not fighting with the neighbours... (D-Link DIR-655)

Makes me laugh when I see from my house (via Wifi Analyzer) 6 local wifi set ups all broadcasting on the same channel

In reply to a post by ANZAC:

Makes me laugh when I see from my house (via Wifi Analyzer) 6 local wifi set ups all broadcasting on the same channel

The Virgin SuperDud's that my neighbours have seem to FOLLOW my channel setting. So I choose channel 6 which is empty - and then two days later I find the two VM SSIDs are now also on Ch 6. They were on channel 2 and 8. so I move, and they move again!

I use inSSIDer and I know the homes with the superhubs and they're not technical so it will be on factory defaults - "auto channel".

Grr, more rubbish VM software. (or is it Netgear to blame, again!).

Maybe as a special Christmas treat for them, turn their wireless off if they don't use it, or see if you can switch it to a manual channel and arrange them accordingly.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

The Virgin SuperDud's that my neighbours have seem to FOLLOW my channel setting. So I choose channel 6 which is empty - and then two days later I find the two VM SSIDs are now also on Ch 6. They were on channel 2 and 8. so I move, and they move again!

I use inSSIDer and I know the homes with the superhubs and they're not technical so it will be on factory defaults - "auto channel".

Grr, more rubbish VM software. (or is it Netgear to blame, again!).

Or - you chose 6 because there was nothing else there, and so did the auto choice system in VM hubs. If you choose a heavily used channel as an experiment, I'd be very surprised if they follow you to that .

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Maybe as a special Christmas treat for them, turn their wireless off if they don't use it, or see if you can switch it to a manual channel and arrange them accordingly.

Sadly I'm not that good a neighbour to go in and start changing their IT setup.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Or - you chose 6 because there was nothing else there, and so did the auto choice system in VM hubs. If you choose a heavily used channel as an experiment, I'd be very surprised if they follow you to that .

I chose that channel about 6 months before these pesky hubs arrived (older SSIDs were from retail router brands) - but I could set up about 50 SSIDs on the same channel and see if that makes them stay away

My two neighbours left theirs insecure - so I just access their routers and changed channels ... simple.



Then, a local garden centre started broadcasting at whet seemed to be way above maximum acceptable power so on a visit we managed to access their WAPs which were transmitting at 36dBm or 4 Watts. We soon sorted that too!

On the garden centre, was that after taking into effect any pigtails to antenna etc, so AP's that are running external antenna can up the power to compensate for long leads to antenna.

It certainly was ...

In reply to a post by MHC:

My two neighbours left theirs insecure - so I just access their routers and changed channels ... simple.

Then, a local garden centre started broadcasting at whet seemed to be way above maximum acceptable power so on a visit we managed to access their WAPs which were transmitting at 36dBm or 4 Watts. We soon sorted that too!

Not sure admitting to any of that on an open forum is a good idea - make sure you aren't traceable or Big Brother may be after you............. The mods seem OK with it though!