RobbH wrote: > Yes, in message 9, he said, "I guess I pushed enough buttons enough > times but I am connected now." My guess is that his earlier inability to > connect was caused by something external, and that the button-pushing > was unrelated to the resolution. I'm probably using the term RFI in a > non-standard way: if a neighbor's WiFi6 implementation causes problems > on your network, I consider that a type of RFI. Obviously, if the > problem is your own WiFi6 implementation, that's a compatibility issue, > not interference. > > In cases where a nearby WiFi6 network causes problems, moving the radio > closer to the router or access point wouldn't be likely to improve the > situation, would it?
Sure, I would consider anything "undesirable" as the 'I' (interference) part of RFI. I worked in an industry where we developed analog RF products (infant monitors) but I was by no means the RF expert, I was more the analog/digital electronic guy that just tried to understand the voodoo that the real RF engineers were involved with. So I really only have a cursory knowledge, although I did have to solve EMI problems in my non RF designs (usually with their help :)) I truly don't have a detailed understanding of wifi6 or most aspects of networking and how or why it messes with our radios, but fundamentally I would think that any time you and increase the signal of the desirable and decrease the signal of the undesirable, you would eventually reach a threshold where the undesirable has no impact (unless of course the undesirable was so strong that this point could not be reached). Think of the analogy of sound. You are a big room and someone you are standing right next to you is yelling at you, and you can barely hear your beloved sb playing your favorite song in the far corner of the room. Walking toward the sb increases your ability to enjoy your song and eventually you are no longer aware you are being yelled at :) I do agree that perhaps a transient RFI event caused his outage (as he had said it had been working all along), and when it finally went away he was able to connect. That's why I mentioned using the wifi analyzer tool, to see if his network was being stepped on. Regardless, lets hope his connection problem is solved! Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115533 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
