On Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003, at 19:50 US/Central, Jay Austad wrote:

> Does anyone have any equipment to find the source of interference?
>
> I think one of my neighbors has a baby monitor or some other always-on 
> 2.4ghz device, and it's completely hosed my 802.11.  It's been almost 
> completely unusable for the last 3 months, and I'm sick of it.  I 
> changed it to fragment on anything larger than 1024 bytes, but it's 
> still sketchy and still doesn't work at all sometimes.  Macstumbler 
> shows high levels of noise, and a channel change doesn't work.  Only 
> channels 2 and 6 are usable at all.  My Orinoco under linux and 
> windows fares a little better, but my roomies Dlink card doesn't work 
> at all.

Gah, I have the same problem sporadically at my place. I find 
power-cycling my AP seems to help. (it's a cheap bastid so maybe that's 
the only prob) I also have a 2.4 GHz phone but it doesn't seem to hurt 
it.

>
> I need to find out where this is coming from.  If it is a damn baby 
> monitor, I'll buy them a shiny new 900mhz one.  So, if anyone has some 
> equipment to test where it's coming from, I'll buy you several beers 
> and some tequila.  Or I could just give you some money or something.  
> :)
>
> Jay
>
>
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