Posted October 24, 2014 Hi, I seem to be having short wireless "dropouts" every half hour or so. While this isn't important while browsing etc I cannot hold a stable connection in games and get kicked.I've moved my PC to a different room and must now rely on an 802.11n PCIe wireless card to connect to the network rather than being directly wired into my router. Upon investigation I found that my router was using "smart channel" selection and would always sit on channel 6. I used a wifi anylyzer to check if other channels would benefit me and it suggested using channels 12,13 or 14 because channel 6 was the poorest signal. I switched to each in turn and each one then became the poorest signal. Is there a reason for this? There are not that many other wifi signals in range. Is there anyting else I should be looking for? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 24, 2014 Hi, I seem to be having short wireless "dropouts" every half hour or so. While this isn't important while browsing etc I cannot hold a stable connection in games and get kicked. I've moved my PC to a different room and must now rely on an 802.11n PCIe wireless card to connect to the network rather than being directly wired into my router. Upon investigation I found that my router was using "smart channel" selection and would always sit on channel 6. I used a wifi anylyzer to check if other channels would benefit me and it suggested using channels 12,13 or 14 because channel 6 was the poorest signal. I switched to each in turn and each one then became the poorest signal. Is there a reason for this? There are not that many other wifi signals in range. Is there anyting else I should be looking for? Thanks in advance Did you break a mirror? Or open an umbrella inside recently? "Use the force Harry" -Gandalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 24, 2014 Author Did you break a mirror? Or open an umbrella inside recently? When I wrote "thanks in advance" I was precluding you, kwljunky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 24, 2014 When I wrote "thanks in advance" I was precluding you, kwljunky. Could be a funny router? Have you got a different one you can try out? Does it drop for any other device, or just your pc? "Use the force Harry" -Gandalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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