- Apr 12, 2018
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So this is a bit of an odd question as most people want to increase their signal strength.
Short story:
I have a pair of Sennheiser RS 185 RF wireless headphones and a Netgear R7000 router. I'm getting interference between the router and the headphones. Is it possible to reduce the 2.4Ghz wifi signal strength of the router so I can use the headphones without interference?
Long story:
I've had the Sennheiser RS 185 RF headphones and the Netgear R7000 router for about a year now. Up until a couple of weeks ago the router lived in the bedroom, and the headphones lived in the living room. Blissful coexistence was had.
Then I had to rewire the coax in my place, and ended up running cat6 along with it to wire up the entire place. I was able to move all my networking gear out of the bedroom and in to the living room. Now the headphones transmitter and router are all of 10ft away from each other with line of sight and I'm getting frequent drops with the headphones. On a bad night it happens every 10 seconds or so, on a good night it happens every few minutes.
The headphones themselves operate on the 2.4ghz RF range. In theory the headphones are supposed to auto sense the best frequency range and situate themselves to avoid interference. This rarely happens. I confirmed the interference was coming from the router and not some other source by simply turning off the wifi on the router. When it's off, no interference, but the second it comes back on I get interference.
I enabled Smart Connect and it's helped a bit but it's far from ideal. Because my Sonos system and a few other devices (including the roommate) use the 2.4ghz range I can't just simply disable it in the router. Sennheiser's recommended fix is to turn off the headphones and router, turn on the headphones for 15 minutes and then turn on the router. The idea is the headphones carve out their space and the router works around that when it comes online. When that doesn't work (it hasn't), they suggest turning off competing 2.4Ghz devices (not an option).
When the router and the transmitter were separated by a wall and an extra 5 ft, this wasn't an issue. So I'm hoping if I can reduce the signal strength of the 2.4ghz range I can still get coverage for the needed devices but not interfere with the headphones. Any advice on how if this can be done? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
Short story:
I have a pair of Sennheiser RS 185 RF wireless headphones and a Netgear R7000 router. I'm getting interference between the router and the headphones. Is it possible to reduce the 2.4Ghz wifi signal strength of the router so I can use the headphones without interference?
Long story:
I've had the Sennheiser RS 185 RF headphones and the Netgear R7000 router for about a year now. Up until a couple of weeks ago the router lived in the bedroom, and the headphones lived in the living room. Blissful coexistence was had.
Then I had to rewire the coax in my place, and ended up running cat6 along with it to wire up the entire place. I was able to move all my networking gear out of the bedroom and in to the living room. Now the headphones transmitter and router are all of 10ft away from each other with line of sight and I'm getting frequent drops with the headphones. On a bad night it happens every 10 seconds or so, on a good night it happens every few minutes.
The headphones themselves operate on the 2.4ghz RF range. In theory the headphones are supposed to auto sense the best frequency range and situate themselves to avoid interference. This rarely happens. I confirmed the interference was coming from the router and not some other source by simply turning off the wifi on the router. When it's off, no interference, but the second it comes back on I get interference.
I enabled Smart Connect and it's helped a bit but it's far from ideal. Because my Sonos system and a few other devices (including the roommate) use the 2.4ghz range I can't just simply disable it in the router. Sennheiser's recommended fix is to turn off the headphones and router, turn on the headphones for 15 minutes and then turn on the router. The idea is the headphones carve out their space and the router works around that when it comes online. When that doesn't work (it hasn't), they suggest turning off competing 2.4Ghz devices (not an option).
When the router and the transmitter were separated by a wall and an extra 5 ft, this wasn't an issue. So I'm hoping if I can reduce the signal strength of the 2.4ghz range I can still get coverage for the needed devices but not interfere with the headphones. Any advice on how if this can be done? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
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