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Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi

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On 12-27-2015 20:40, nospam wrote:
> In article <n5q74v$8sm$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.

>> 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).

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  Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2015-12-27 20:35 -0600
    Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-27 21:40 -0500
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        Re: Blocking the neighbor's WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-29 16:23 -0500
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