Think Wireless 2.4 TV/monitor/xmitter. Go to a test equipment rental shop and rent a spectrum analyzer that works in the 2.4 range. Connect a low gain directional antenna to it and start looking for the direction of most noise. Then turn the antenna backwards and start working the null back to the source. When you can't null out the noise any longer no matter which way you turn the antenna, you will be on top of the source. S. Earl Jarosh N0HZ (ex. KA0VYB) 612-868-1313 Money Centers of America Director of Information Technology earl at jarosh.org earljarosh at moneycenters.com www.moneycenters.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Austad" <austad at signal15.com> To: <tcwug-list at tcwug.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:50 PM Subject: [TCWUG] Equipment to find source of interference > 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. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list