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All of a sudden the Airport stuff I have set up at home is going a
little nuts. On both laptopsthat we use at home (one has an old
Airport card, the other has the newer Airport Extreme) the Airport icon
is starting to flash on and off, going from 5 bars to 0 bars in rapid succession. Setting "Use Interference Robustness" on my machine helps sometimes, but my wife's machine (the older one, still running Panther)
doesn't even seem to have that option. Can someone suggest what might
be going on and offer a possible solution? Thanks!!
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Lot-o-fun <lotofun61@yahoo.com> wrote:

All of a sudden the Airport stuff I have set up at home is going a
little nuts. On both laptopsthat we use at home (one has an old
Airport card, the other has the newer Airport Extreme) the Airport icon
is starting to flash on and off, going from 5 bars to 0 bars in rapid succession. Setting "Use Interference Robustness" on my machine helps sometimes, but my wife's machine (the older one, still running Panther) doesn't even seem to have that option. Can someone suggest what might
be going on and offer a possible solution? Thanks!!

The fact that two different Macs are suddenly exhibiting the same
symptoms suggests that the cause is either your wireless base station or interference from some other source.

Get a wireless signal monitor, such as iStumbler
<http://istumbler.net/>, and let it run for a while to see if other
nearby wireless networks are using "your" channel. Then try using
different channels to see if that reduces the problem.

Unfortunately, 802.11b/g (AirPort/AirPort Extreme) is also susceptible
to interference from sources like cordless telephones and microwave
ovens. Those sources won't show up in iStumbler and will be hard to
avoid simply by changing channels.

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Someone in your immediate vicinity has just introduced a wireless router
into their home.

Assuming that you have not changed your wireless router channel from it's default of 6 to something else, you are now experiencing interference.

The general rule is that if there are multiple wireless routers in close proximity to each other, they should all be set to different channels.
Channel 1, channel 6 and channel 11.

Wireless telephones can also cause interference as well as Microwave ovens.

Of course, your wireless router could be failing also.

rtt


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It turns out that this is exactly the problem. Thanks. However, no
matter what channel I change to, the interference remains.

Is there a "Use Interference Robustness" option that I can set on an
iBook G3 with an old 802.11b card running Panther?

Thanks again!

In article <444790b2$1_2@news.cybersurf.net>, Richard Tomkins <tomkinsr@istop.com> wrote:

Someone in your immediate vicinity has just introduced a wireless router
into their home.

Assuming that you have not changed your wireless router channel from it's default of 6 to something else, you are now experiencing interference.

The general rule is that if there are multiple wireless routers in close proximity to each other, they should all be set to different channels. Channel 1, channel 6 and channel 11.

Wireless telephones can also cause interference as well as Microwave ovens.

Of course, your wireless router could be failing also.

rtt

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Lot-o-fun <lotofun61@yahoo.com> writes:

It turns out that this is exactly the problem. Thanks. However, no
matter what channel I change to, the interference remains.

Is there a "Use Interference Robustness" option that I can set on an
iBook G3 with an old 802.11b card running Panther?

Thanks again!

Have you tried logging into your neighbor's router, setting the
channel to 1, and setting your channel to 11?

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In article <w11wvs80fm.fsf@ethel.the.log>, Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:

Lot-o-fun <lotofun61@yahoo.com> writes:

It turns out that this is exactly the problem. Thanks. However, no
matter what channel I change to, the interference remains.

Is there a "Use Interference Robustness" option that I can set on an
iBook G3 with an old 802.11b card running Panther?

Thanks again!

Have you tried logging into your neighbor's router, setting the
channel to 1, and setting your channel to 11?

I was already on channel 1, and the router that was causing problems
was already on channel 11. I tried a bunch of other channels as well,
but the new router (which is an "industrial" one, not an ordinary plain
home router that one can buy at Routers 'R' Us) was interfering
nonetheless.
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Lot-o-fun <lotofun61@yahoo.com> writes:

In article <w11wvs80fm.fsf@ethel.the.log>, Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:

Lot-o-fun <lotofun61@yahoo.com> writes:

It turns out that this is exactly the problem. Thanks. However, no matter what channel I change to, the interference remains.

Is there a "Use Interference Robustness" option that I can set on an iBook G3 with an old 802.11b card running Panther?

Thanks again!

Have you tried logging into your neighbor's router, setting the
channel to 1, and setting your channel to 11?

I was already on channel 1, and the router that was causing problems
was already on channel 11. I tried a bunch of other channels as well,
but the new router (which is an "industrial" one, not an ordinary plain
home router that one can buy at Routers 'R' Us) was interfering
nonetheless.

How frustrating! You might also try (in the not-free-but-cheap
category) buying a new wireless router in case the one you have is
either having problems, or just interacts poorly with the 900 pound
gorilla next door.

If you are happy with 802.11b, you can pick up a netgear or d-link (or
belkin) wireless router for under $35. Probably at your local
office-supply store, but if not, at amazon.

I'm currently using a netgear MR 814 v2 which plays well with very
nearby (home quality, not industrial) wifi.

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You might try changing some of the Wi-Fi performance parameters.

If you were to get an older LinkSys, WRT54-G or GS, you could get the
special OpenSource firmware for it and possibly more readily configure the
unit for higher performance on your side of the lawn.

If you are on Channel 11 and they are on Channel 1, then that is the maximum spread available to reduce interference.



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