Home Network Problems.

Fluxx · September 2, 2014

Ok so new neighbors moved in next door a few weeks ago and ever since they moved in my wireless network has been really unstable, so i looked into it and their network is on the same channel as mine so i decided to change the channel of my router in case it was causing the issue, so i when go into my routers settings (it's a Netgear DGN2000) and changed the channel and applied the new settings and for some reason it reset itself to factory default settings. So after 2 hours i finally got the stupid thing working again but only on the same channel if i try and do any of the other channels it resets itself, the only channel that works is Auto which sets it to channel 6 everytime which is the same as my neighbors network.

Round 2, So i had one of these powerline adapters laying around so i tried that and it fixed the issue but of course it caused another issue, even though the connection was stable it was really slow almost 3 times slower than on my wireless connection even the ping was worse. So i connect my laptop into the same port on the router that the adapter was in and it works fine no problems.

So i was wondering if anyone knows any other way of connecting the stuff in my room to the internet without running a cable through the middle of the house or buying a new router because wireless is just to unreliable. I was thinking of getting a ethernet port installed in my room but i don't know if it will have the same problem as the adapter and also i have no idea how much it would cost. So does anyone have any ideas?