WiFi Interference or a new router?

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Hi guy's I have just moved back home after finishing University. Now the wifi connection is really crap when i right click on it and show the status it ranges from 11 Mb - 48Mb with a single strength of poor :( This would be fine for just web browsing but I play a lot of games online which results in unplayable lag, it can be unresponsive for many seconds.

Currently the router is a BT HomeHub V1.5, I am about 10m away from the Hub and even when u are one room away from the Hub the single strength drops. I have read into wifi problems and it could be caused by the alarm system in the house (a motion detection one) or by the cheap wifi phone my parents own. I have tried turning off the phones which results in little to know difference.

I can not turn the alarm off but it's not in use since we have pets so i hope that shouldn't cause a problem.

Is the standard BT hub just crap and buying something else would just be amazing or does this house have some odd walls :confused:

Also non of the computer's in the house have anything apart from the standard 52mb connection so we shouldn't need a wireless 'N' connection unless they bring extra range to wireless 'G'. I hope someone can help sort this out as it is doing my head in, I need to chill out and play some games dame it :P

Thanks.
 
Been using that tool and it just shows me that I have a very bad connection, the odd thing is im picking up a Virgin wifi signal which isn't from my house. The virginal single is nearly as strong as the BT homehub so maybe replacing that will sort it.

Any suggestions for a wifi router? :confused:
 
Azuse05 said:
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider
Click to expand...

ok for seeing what channels are congested and what ssid`s are in your area.

i have

wi-spy 2.4x and use channelizer to measure and see 2.4GHZ noise on a spectragraph

it shows what is happening in real time on the band with anything that uses that frequency range. I found heating sensor can cause problems and so can xbox360 wireless adapters they seem to spread scan across the band !

its not cheap but its good
 
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