In my neighborhood, several of my long time neighbors have retired, sold out and moved out. The new families being far more tech savvy, well they brought THEIR 802.11n with them... This poses me with a problem.
They are sucking up the airwaves, making the connection REALLY slow.
No clue what the game consoles are connecting at, but my Windows 7 box is connecting at a mere 58mbps.
I have insured I am only looking at WPA2 and leaving WEP out entirely, not sure what else I can or should do to speed this up.
When I open the Wireless network panel to view available networks I see.
BigTexasLAN Secured 5 bars (My network)
Linksys unsecured 5 bars. I suspect that is the new next door neighbor.
Linksys_Guest unsecured 5 bars. I figure the new neighbor hasn't bothered doing anything to lock his router or WiFi down...
Linksys54321 Secured 4 bars
GamersParadise Secured 4 bars.
Classified Secured 4 bars.
Classified_Guest Secured 4 bars.
Netgear unsecured 3 bars,
BelkinRouter unsecured 3 bars
Mman secured 2 bars. (I am guessing this belongs to the new guy Mike across the street).
I have browsed the unsecured networks, and the least loaded network appears to have 6 devices.
Assuming everyone around me is using the default radio settings, I figure everything is on the same channel for the WiFi. Guessing that this would be something like a CB Radio with 5 guys trying to talk at once, am I on the right track thinking I need to switch the router to a different channel, find an open channel to get my speed back?
I need to figure this out. It is impacting my Wife's "Farmville" and she is letting me know ALL about it...
They are sucking up the airwaves, making the connection REALLY slow.
No clue what the game consoles are connecting at, but my Windows 7 box is connecting at a mere 58mbps.
I have insured I am only looking at WPA2 and leaving WEP out entirely, not sure what else I can or should do to speed this up.
When I open the Wireless network panel to view available networks I see.
BigTexasLAN Secured 5 bars (My network)
Linksys unsecured 5 bars. I suspect that is the new next door neighbor.
Linksys_Guest unsecured 5 bars. I figure the new neighbor hasn't bothered doing anything to lock his router or WiFi down...
Linksys54321 Secured 4 bars
GamersParadise Secured 4 bars.
Classified Secured 4 bars.
Classified_Guest Secured 4 bars.
Netgear unsecured 3 bars,
BelkinRouter unsecured 3 bars
Mman secured 2 bars. (I am guessing this belongs to the new guy Mike across the street).
I have browsed the unsecured networks, and the least loaded network appears to have 6 devices.
Assuming everyone around me is using the default radio settings, I figure everything is on the same channel for the WiFi. Guessing that this would be something like a CB Radio with 5 guys trying to talk at once, am I on the right track thinking I need to switch the router to a different channel, find an open channel to get my speed back?
I need to figure this out. It is impacting my Wife's "Farmville" and she is letting me know ALL about it...