[Wi-Fi] Ugh. Please put your 2.4ghz on Channels 1,6 or 11

Channel 4???

 

On a serious note; i'll be checking which channel i'm using. lol

 

How do you do that with google WI-FI?

 

Does yours start on one or is it centered -- same for your neighbor is he 'so far gone'?

 

So you have a bunch of nice polite neighbors and one Trumper.

 

I had to switch to 5ghz to stream upstairs and downstairs. Too much interference.

My bro-in-law uses Powerline for streaming. A lot less interference but I forgot how he go around weirdness in the living room when anyone used the microwave.

I'm guessing your neighbor using a mesh? Never used it...

 

what the hell is goings on? what am i looking at?

 

My knobs also go to 11

 

Yeah I don't know much jack **** about this stuff but I did put mine on 11 and reduced my wifi power for when I turn it on based off of a recommendation from a video I watched, but most of the time I have my wifi off and have all of my devices connected with wires.

 

hell yea **** that guy!

 

No clue what this means

I like lamp

 

Yeah, my neighbors are a mess too... I run 1/6/11 and same SSID name - so no overlap and I spread them away from my neighbors houses depending what they're running (they're all over though 2/3/4/7/8/9 hahaha, like every channel... But definitely not as wild as your neighbor's setup). Then on my 5g APs I just make sure they're not on any of the neighbors channels (there's 3 again - same ssid across 5g but different from 2.4G SSID and all different channels). I try to be courteous to my neighbors and reuse a 5g channel if I know I'm out of their range at that AP.

Anyway devices switch np and I set these up way before mesh etc. I'm thinking I'll eventually try to help my neighborhood out since I know their devices are definitely not maxing out on wireless access, but I'm not sure when it'll happen. I've currently got a long list of work/projects and am working on pfsense setup too (it's not hard for pfsense but changing up a lot of stuff).

I guess I meant - with the amount of complaints I see about an isp on my Facebook neighborhood group - it's clear a little help might help them out. Ie, the isps aren't helping anyone and a lot are getting nowhere near what they're paying for.

 

Well sure, run 220...221...whatever it takes.

 

Good advice. Also make sure you're using 5.0 GHz if your device supports it. 5.0 GHz loses some range to 2.4 GHz, so it may not always be an option. The speed gains, however, are massive. Make sure you're not leaving that on the table. And it's less congested. Far less. It's absolutely absurd how congested the 2.4 GHz band is. Ever wonder why your Bluetooth devices have connectivity issues (Apple, aside)? Bluetooth also runs on the 2.4 GHz band, so one of the (many) reasons is that it's getting mixed up in all of that. Many of your smart home devices run on the 2.4 GHz band.

What if your laptop is a few years old and doesn't have the ability to connect to 5.0 GHz? It's very simple to swap out the wifi/bluetooth adapter in it to a better one. I've done it multiple times. Costs a few bucks and a few minutes to do it, and the gains are totally worth it. Just use an Intel adapter. They're rock solid. If you want to discuss doing that, we can talk about it more in here. Finding the correct part for your system often takes more time than the actual swap.

 

“Well, it’s one more isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be internet-ing at ten...Where can you go from there? Where?”

"This one goes to eleven."

 

Not sure either but I fapped nonetheless, I am disappoint in you. Try harder please Jontro.