I've not run Inssider for a few weeks now, but when I took my laptop for a walk around our house with Inssider running I picked up 27 wireless networks, only two of them were mine. And my two are on free channels - the other 25, mostly BT & SKY seem to all be on two channels - hate to think what their wireless is like.

Very useful little program Inssider.

Post deleted by RobertoS

Free channels?

Two channels is what most routers have to use to get true "N".

Free as in no one else is using that channel.

Just took a look, but I'm not going to wonder around the house this time of night (wife and kids are alseep). Most wi-fi networks here seem to be on channels 1,6 & 10. So mine are on 3 & 8 which are 'free' from others, although of course do overlap a bit

Edit. Just sat in my office I'm picking up 20, and that's with only one of mine.

Edited by R0NSKI (Sat 29-Dec-12 22:45:40)

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I've not run Inssider for a few weeks now, but when I took my laptop for a walk around our house with Inssider running I picked up 27 wireless networks, only two of them were mine. And my two are on free channels - the other 25, mostly BT & SKY seem to all be on two channels - hate to think what their wireless is like.

Very useful little program Inssider.

I fired it up on my laptop earlier this evening and it showed 12 networks. Unlike yours mine are spread around quite a lot. There is some clustering and I think they were Sky labelled but there's no clear space. I've toyed with the idea of replacing my WAP with one that supports the 5GHz band but in normal use it's perfectly fine having a wired connection on my laptop. When I'm actually mobile around the house I don't need real speed.

Edited by Andrue (Sat 29-Dec-12 22:44:59)

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When I'm actually mobile around the house I don't need real speed.

Same here, wireless is only for the phones, tablets, Wii and laptop (which I hardly use), all others 1Gbps wired

I only have houses one side of me (other side is park) and I have a lot of networks crammed in on the 2.4ghz. My android detects 9 but my router detects 14.

I had always been using 40mhz width but it turns out that was gaining me about 5% and not much more. With just 20mhz configured and the least populated channel which is 13, but still 3 routers around there, I can get 70-75mbps throughput on it. Which is just about enough for a fully synced line. For that it reports 130-150mbit, laptop always reports 150 regardless, the varying reported speed is from router side. So on 40mhz when the laptop reported 300mbit the actual real throughput was almost the same.

I only use wireless for phones, and my laptop, everything else is wired, and sometimes my laptop goes wired as well depending where it is.

Some people really hate wires tho, eg. my sister wont even use wired keyboards.

Watch out, some devices (to comply in the US) don't support channels 12, 13 & 14. Yes there is a channel 14, but not much supports it.

yes but I am using UK compliant devices.