How To Choose The Best/fast Wireless Channel?

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How To Choose The Best/fast Wireless Channel?

Posted on 05. Sep, 2009 by admin in Answers

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I live in Switzerland, I’m using a laptop at home andI have a wireless router installed on my desktop computer. I still seem to have lots of lag while using the internet and I lose the connection at least 10 times in one evening.
I found out that it could be because too many people are on the same channel as me and I tried to mess around and see which channel was the best but I can’t seem to figure it out.
I researched and saw that you can get some programs which can detect which signal is the strongest. I downloaded Netstumbler but it couldn’t even detect my wireless signal!
Does anyone know how I can detect which channel is the best? Or what I didnt wrong while using Netstumbler?
Thanks alot¨!

Tags: NetStumbler, Signal Strength, Usage

3 Responses to “How To Choose The Best/fast Wireless Channel?”

Tracy L

05. Sep, 2009

Netstumbler is usually the best program to see what other channels are in use around you. If you don’t see ANY stations, including your own, your card may not be compatible or you selected the wrong netstumbler driver.
Look on the bottom of the Network Stumbler screen, if you see
a yellow triangle with “No Wireless Adapter Found”.. your wireless card isn’t compatible!
You can always try the following method to find the best channel for you. First remember that the only totally “open” channels are 1, 6, and 11. All other channels have some “Overlap” to those channels.
Other channels do work but there is some amount of interference from adjacent ones. A small amount of interference is fine, its the LARGE interference that kills your internal signal.
Start with channel 1 check the coverage in your location if its good then use it.
If 1 isn’t good then try 11 at the opposite end.
Then channel 6.
Once those have been tried use 3 and 9, 4 and 8
One of these will usually find a clear path for you.
Don’t forget that things like Baby Room Monitors, intercoms, wirless cameras, cordless phones, wireless speaker systems, wireless keyboards and wireless mice can also interfere with your WIFI system! You may find one of those covering the entire range!

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Eagle

05. Sep, 2009

Try to switch between each channel and how each one of them work in your case. Just go to the configuration of the router and try each channel. In my case I remember I had channel 1 and it did disconnect every time someone used the wireless phone. Now I changed to channel 6 and never had had any problem. Also over here there are many people with wireless connection and never a problem. so just go through the different channels options you have. also make sure is secured cause someone might have access to your connection and that might be the cause , just someone playing with your wireless.

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MrZip

05. Sep, 2009

the higer the channel the better it is

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