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Blocking the neighbor's WiFi

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I'm almost embarrassed to ask this but is there anyway to block my
neighbors WiFi signals from intruding into my home? I have an AEBS (4th
Gen) router. We have numerous WiFi devices that have always worked
perfectly for a long time. About a month ago I bought an iPhone 5. WiFi
worked great with a nice strong signal. My daughter has an iPhone 4
which has always worked equally as well. When she was home for the
holidays she was complaining that she couldn't connect to our network.
I noticed that my iPhone was also having the same issue (from the same
location in the house btw). Firing up iStumbler I noticed that there
were a lot more WIFI signals detectable from the same location in my
house than there used to be. Some quite strong and all protected.
Moving the iPhones around the house resolved the connection issues. So
I'm thinking that in the family room, there are very strong
neighborhood signals that are causing the iPhones to search and attempt
to lock on to. The other WiFi devices in the family room don't seem to
be having connection issues. So, is this 1) an issue unique to the
iPhones? 2) an AEBS setup issue? 3) true interference from the
neighbors WiFIs? 4) can I make my WiFi signal (2.4GHz) stronger to
"overpower" the other signals? and 5) is there really anything I can do
about it or is this just life in the WiFi age? Oh, and we have a
utility SmartMeter on the same side of the house but I've never noticed
any interference issues with it. Thanks.

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  Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-28 22:23 -0500
  Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-28 22:37 -0800
    Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2012-11-28 20:41 -0800
      Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-28 23:52 -0800
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          Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-29 02:35 -0800
          Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Lampje <eternal-september.spamonice@antichef.net> - 2012-11-30 01:03 +0100
            Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi David Stone <no.email@domain.invalid> - 2012-11-30 09:52 -0500
              Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi "Thomas R. Kettler" <tkettler@blownfuse.net> - 2012-11-30 14:22 -0500
      Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2012-11-29 06:41 +0000
      Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com> - 2012-11-29 13:31 -0600
      Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2012-11-29 18:44 -0500
  Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2012-11-29 21:59 -0500
    Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2012-11-29 21:13 -0800
      Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-30 00:34 -0800
      Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2012-11-30 19:47 -0500
        Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2012-11-30 21:22 -0800
          Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2012-12-02 13:56 -0500

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