There are only actually 3 wifi channels at 2.4ghz for 20mhz spacing, and they are 1, 6 and 11.
By using any of the other numbers you are overlapping the adjacent channel. Whey they let you pick 2,3,4,5, etc., is beyond me. By using 8, you will be getting interference from both channels 6 and 11, so I would recommend that you use 1 or 11, or, better yet, move to 802.11AN and use the 5Ghz band and then you can also take advantage of 40Mhz bandwidth, full 3x3 Mimo and much better speeds of over 300Mhz. I would also make sure you lock down your current router to 802.11G or 802.11N if you can. If anything else joins your network and it is B, it drops down to the old B speeds. In fact, all your router has to do is hear other traffic (your neighbour) and a B device connected and it will drop down that speed. Surprised that your neighbours can actually impact your bandwidth by not being connected? The 802.11 spec is designed to play nice with your neighbours and not QRM them. :) Mike va3mw (yes, I used to install stuff like this for a living) On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT < k...@coldrockshotbrooms.com> wrote: > Keep in mind too that WiFi channels overlap quite a bit. If the problem > is WiFi activity on channel 6, you'd have to go to 3 or 9 to be completely > clear. > > 73 -- Lynn > > > On 7/16/2014 1:51 PM, James Beitchman wrote: > >> What I learned is that >> most WiFi equipment as-delivered is set for channel 6 as default and most >> users leave it there. I checked my router in the City and found it was on >> channel 6. I changed my router to channel 8 and the dropped packet >> problem >> completely disappeared and CW is just fine. >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to va...@portcredit.net > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
