On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote: > Hi, > > A friend is installing a Linksys WRT54G at his cafe to offer free WiFi > service to his customers. Unfortunately, we cannot get it to work well > enough most likely due to signal interference problems. After some diddling > aournd, we realized that the problem might stem from his 2.4Ghz video > surveillance system. After turning it off, we still couldn't get it to work. > > However, we then noticed that his video surveillance receiver was picking up > a strong video signal from a store across the street. So, it seems that the > interference is _also_ coming from across the street. At this point, it is > not clear whether he can reasonable request that his neighbor turn off his > video system.
that wouldn't be a reasonable request... > Hopefully someone can help you with the following questions: > > - What can be done to mitigate this? Would some sort of "antenna" solve this > problem, in order to provide service to just a small area within his cafe? you can use a directional antenna to cut down on the noise from across the street... you could ask you neighbor if his camera has a selectable range of frequencies, put him on one end of ism band and your ap on the other,,, > - Is there any software or hardware that can be purchased to track down > 2.4Ghz interference? Decent spectrum analyzers that work in the microwave range are fairly expensive The noise level value in your wireless driver is useful in this regard. > Thanks, > Marc > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
