Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Tue Jul 10 16:08:21 CDT 2012
I switched to channel 11. So far Max has been on for about 4 hours - no problem. That might be the answer. Thanks for all the input. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 8:49 AM To: Off Topic Cc: List Subject: Re: [dba-OT] Wireless Router Opinions anytime you have anybody on your own channel, that is an automatic interference, and the reason you see the drop is just the two networks working out their error correction to try to mitigate each other. since it sounds like the majority of your neighbors are on channel 1 and 6 I would move your channel to channel 11. >From your description: channel 1 = 4 ssids channel 6 = neighbor channel 9 = neighbor *weak So the way these things span out you will have some interference from the channel 9 guy, but it will be a lot less then someone directly on your channel. I would expect to see a signal performance improvement. But that wont take away any other interference if you may have such as 2.4ghz wireless phones in your home. hth -Francisco http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... #LetAppleKnow You want your iPhone 4 Features, turn by turn Navigation! https://plus.google.com/112803888444646122406/posts/HmQej9pHZQM <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote: > So I downloaded a wireless viewer and I see that I'm on channel 6 > along with one other network. There is one on channel 9 and 4 on > channel one. > > My RSSI is -18 - the other channel 6 RSSI is -82 - pretty weak - as is > the channel 9 guy. The four channel 1 networks' RSSI ranges from -70 to -90. > > However, watching my RSSI I see that it drops to -70 from time to time. > Another metric here is the Last signal as a percent - and mine is > 95-100% but drops to 60% occasionally for a couple seconds and then > returns to 95-100%. > > Could that be an indication that the wireless circuitry in the router > is getting shaky or is that coming from outside? > > Any clues here? > > TIA > > Rocky > > > _______________________________________________ dba-OT mailing list dba-OT at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-ot Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com