Neighbour causes connection drops

Hi,

I have a wireless network consisting of a D-Link DI-624 Router and a
desktop with a D-Link DWL-G520 card and a Dell laptop with whichever 54
Mbps card they install (sorry, I don't have it with me).

Everything works OK until one of my neighbours comes back from work and
switches on his network: all the connections are then dropped and I have to
either repair them manually (on a good day) or reboot the computer.

I am running my network on channel 1, he is on channel 7 (according to the
D-Link Airlink applet).

Is there anything that can be done to avert this hassle?

Thanks,

Iggy

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 02:58:35 GMT, Ignacy Sawicki <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I have a wireless network consisting of a D-Link DI-624 Router and a
>desktop with a D-Link DWL-G520 card and a Dell laptop with whichever 54
>Mbps card they install (sorry, I don't have it with me).
>
>Everything works OK until one of my neighbours comes back from work and
>switches on his network: all the connections are then dropped and I have to
>either repair them manually (on a good day) or reboot the computer.
>
>I am running my network on channel 1, he is on channel 7 (according to the
>D-Link Airlink applet).
>
>Is there anything that can be done to avert this hassle?

Sure. Are you SURE you're on channel 1? That implies that you have
the super-G mode disabled in your DI-624 router. If it were enabled,
you would be stuck on Channel 6. When enabled, it also uses ALL the
channels. That's probably where the interference is coming from. Go
to the web config page something like:

http://support.dlink.com/techtool/di...rform_11g.html
and set the Super G mode to "disabled". Also set the channel to 1 or
11.

Unfortunately, if your neighbor also a router that has Super G or
similar channel bonding scheme, you'll have the same problem no matter
what channel you select for your access point. You'll need to contact
the neighbor, determine the model number of their router, and coerce
them into disarming the Super-G or whatever channel bonding mode.


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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:04:16 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Sure. Are you SURE you're on channel 1? That implies that you have
>the super-G mode disabled in your DI-624 router. If it were enabled,
>you would be stuck on Channel 6. When enabled, it also uses ALL the
>channels. That's probably where the interference is coming from.

OK, I lied. The web setup page for the DI-624 allows one to select
any channel when Super-G Turbot is enabled. That's not exactly true
as Super-G hogs the entire 2.4GHz band. A bit of reading found the
answer. When Super-G throttles down to normal 802.11b/g rates in
order to maintain compatibility, it goes to whatever channel is
selected. When it Super-G mode, it uses all the channels.


--
Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558

Some more on Super-G from DLink:
http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1423

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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 AE6KS 831-336-2558

Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> OK, I lied. The web setup page for the DI-624 allows one to select
> any channel when Super-G Turbot is enabled. That's not exactly true
> as Super-G hogs the entire 2.4GHz band. A bit of reading found the
> answer. When Super-G throttles down to normal 802.11b/g rates in
> order to maintain compatibility, it goes to whatever channel is
> selected. When it Super-G mode, it uses all the channels.

Yes, I have the Super-G mode disabled, 802.11g-only mode enabled and CTS
only on Auto (whatever it does...). SO it seems to me that it should be
working.

Iggy