maxbraketorque
Very Senior Member
Firmware 380.1842 has been running pretty much trouble free since it was released several months ago, and then yesterday out-of-the-blue, my 2.4 GHz network just stopped working. Rebooting the router didn't fix it, shutting down all computers didn't fix it. Finally I found that changing my 2.4 GHz network settings brought it back to life. The entire time it was working, I had it manually set to Channel 1 with Auto 20/40 MHz. When I set the channel to Auto (with the router selecting Channel 11), it started working again, and then when I set it back to Channel 1, the network went away again. I've got it set to Auto again, and the 2.4 GHz network is alive, but it seems that the range is diminished. A wifi device in the master bedroom on the other side of the house was working fine when the router was set manually to Channel 1, but now with it in Auto Channel mode, the device is struggling to obtain any bandwidth.
I'm guessing its some kind of network interference issue that suddenly started, and I have scanned for other networks, but there is nothing out of the ordinary (just my neighbor's networks that have always been there).
Interestingly, the nearby networks in the 2.4 GHz range utilizing Channel 11 have a weaker signal (1-3% strength) than the ones using Channel 1 (one network at 10% signal strength), so it would seem that Channel 11 should be a better choice.
Any thoughts or suggestions as to what is happening?
I'm guessing its some kind of network interference issue that suddenly started, and I have scanned for other networks, but there is nothing out of the ordinary (just my neighbor's networks that have always been there).
Interestingly, the nearby networks in the 2.4 GHz range utilizing Channel 11 have a weaker signal (1-3% strength) than the ones using Channel 1 (one network at 10% signal strength), so it would seem that Channel 11 should be a better choice.
Any thoughts or suggestions as to what is happening?