What difference does this make?

[CF93]

Trying to improve the connection from my wireless router (downstairs) to my laptop (upstairs) and think I've tried pretty mcuh every setting apart from changing the channel.

What difference does using the different channels on a wireless router make, and how do you know which to use?

 

[CF93]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Can't move it upstairs (the laptop is supposed to be downstairs anyway really) as the house is Cat5 networked and the centre of the network is downstairs, so the router needs to be there for that (my main pc is wired to the network.)

As for security there are several wireless networks around that I can pick up from the house (not all protected) so I'd rather keep the WPA and MAC filtering turned on, just in case.

Will play around with the channels anyway to see what happens. Thansk guys.