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Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi

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In article <n5usp1$bog$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Happy.Hobo
<Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:

> >>>> 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.
> >>
> >> Is there an unused channel,
> >
> > for 2.4ghz, there are 11 overlapping channels (in the usa), giving
> > effectively only 3 non-overlapping channels.
> 
> Irrelevant.  The question is still whether there is one he can use.

it's not irrelevant. 

there are only 3 channels available without overlap, so it's pretty
much guaranteed that in any non-rural area, there *will* be other wifi
networks in use.

in an apartment setting, it's possible that several of them will be
strong enough to cause a problem. with houses and certainly in rural
areas, neighbor's networks will be weak and won't matter much, if at
all.

> >> and can you tell your access point to use it?
> >
> > it can be set to use a specific wifi network.
> 
> I suspect you don't know whether OP has a device that can change 
> channels or is limited to one or limited to "automatic" (which can fail 
> to switch to something that actually works).

automatic is not a limitation.

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