If the two routers are on 6 they will be more conservative to avoid collisions.

With 1 router on channel 6 and the other on 7. The routers behave as-if the channels do not interfere with one another.

The router on 6 acts oblivious to the router on 7. Both will happily transmit data wirelessly at the same time and collide with one another over and over again.

That's the point I'm trying to make.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Thu 07-Feb-13 04:28:43)

Yes, I know the point you are making.

I'm just asking why a router on 6 is aware of & can detect another router on 6, but it is oblivious & can't detect one one on 7, even tho' 7 overlaps & interferes with 6?

In other words why the "as-if" in your reply above? You are saying that the 2 channels interfere during actual data transmission, but not during detection of presence. Just wondering why cuz the mechanism would seem to be there to detect each other and therefore take the same avoidance action during transmission.

thanks for that

ill try to use 6 then

It seems to be worse now I really don't get it , I can't even watch a video on YouTube without buffering on my iPhone , ( fine with laptop , wireless too )
Internet is fast and reliable , it's only for videos on iPhone that's doesn't work properly , YouTube and bbc iplayer , works fine laptop or even samsung tv bbc I player ,
Any suggestions ?

Try channel 1 , 6 and 11

If all deliver the same results its probably the router.

Did the O2 box work fine?

To confirm Ethernet is fine?

ok it seems to be working for the past couple of days , i did a router factory settings i also the intelligent wireless channel in brightbox , i also tried yesterday to use this dual channel bonding but 20/40 mhz but i realized that i lost a bit of speed so i went back to 20 only

hopefully itll stay like this

20mhz travels much further and picks up less interference.

Auto channel can be good especially when people don't abide to 1,6 and 11 as it tries to work around those issues. Sometimes it's a case of choosing the best channel out of several bad ones.

Hopefully it'll be good from now onwards. The brightbox has good reviews on various sites so should really be doing you proud.