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strengthen wifi of wireless modem
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hklt0110
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Hi,
Another possible solution without buying new router.
1.) Scan your area of available wireless network, you can download nSSID scanner, it will says what Wireless network on your area and what channel they are using. Likewise, what channel is available.
Signal strength of any Wireless is base on the noise of channel use on your area. Usually, majority of Wireless Router are configure on Auto-Channel, but it only stays on Channel 1, 6 and 11.
2.) Choose the channel that is not in-use, probably, channel 3,5,7,9 and 10 are usually always available. Save and reboot.
3.) On your laptop, remove/forget the wireless name and reconnect on the same wireless SSID. (We need to do this, so that the Router will connect you) If you will not remove/forget the wireless name, you cannot connect to the network because we change the channel.
Hope it helps!
Another possible solution without buying new router.
1.) Scan your area of available wireless network, you can download nSSID scanner, it will says what Wireless network on your area and what channel they are using. Likewise, what channel is available.
Signal strength of any Wireless is base on the noise of channel use on your area. Usually, majority of Wireless Router are configure on Auto-Channel, but it only stays on Channel 1, 6 and 11.
2.) Choose the channel that is not in-use, probably, channel 3,5,7,9 and 10 are usually always available. Save and reboot.
3.) On your laptop, remove/forget the wireless name and reconnect on the same wireless SSID. (We need to do this, so that the Router will connect you) If you will not remove/forget the wireless name, you cannot connect to the network because we change the channel.
Hope it helps!
- Apr 15, 2014
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so what your saying is:
change to a different channel using that particular tool.
then delete my previous info of my wifi connection, so that my pc will automatically use the new one.
is this what you mean?
Changing channels does nothing to increase the signal levels it just possibly reduces the competition for channels with your neighbors. It does not improve the range or change the power the radios transmit.
Using anything other than 1,6,11 is generally a stupid thing to do. There are 2 types of channels. The ones these numbers represent and the ones used by 802.11 wireless. The wireless numbers you pick represent 5mhz wide and were used for many thing well before WiFi came around. WiFi uses 20mhz channels. This means you must use 4 of the "channels" the router lets you set for a single wireless signal. So when you pick channel 6 you actually transmit on part of 4,5,6,7 and part of 8. So if you pick say channel 5 you would then use part of 3,4,5,6 and part of 7. This means you overlap someone using channel 1 and someone using channel 6. So rather than decrease your interference you now are competing with 2 groups of devices rather than 1. It gets even worse when someone is using one of the newer routers that run 150m or more. These need 40mhz...ie 8 channels. This means only 1 person can use the new fast speeds without interfering.
.....this is why everyone who can is moving to 5g. In the 5g range the channel numbers represent channels that are 20mhz wide
Using anything other than 1,6,11 is generally a stupid thing to do. There are 2 types of channels. The ones these numbers represent and the ones used by 802.11 wireless. The wireless numbers you pick represent 5mhz wide and were used for many thing well before WiFi came around. WiFi uses 20mhz channels. This means you must use 4 of the "channels" the router lets you set for a single wireless signal. So when you pick channel 6 you actually transmit on part of 4,5,6,7 and part of 8. So if you pick say channel 5 you would then use part of 3,4,5,6 and part of 7. This means you overlap someone using channel 1 and someone using channel 6. So rather than decrease your interference you now are competing with 2 groups of devices rather than 1. It gets even worse when someone is using one of the newer routers that run 150m or more. These need 40mhz...ie 8 channels. This means only 1 person can use the new fast speeds without interfering.
.....this is why everyone who can is moving to 5g. In the 5g range the channel numbers represent channels that are 20mhz wide
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