Subj : Re: Wifi status indicator To : Chris Townley From : bp@www.zefox.net Date : Tue Jul 02 2024 02:13:51 Chris Townley wrote: >> Between the two, I'm rather confused. Over the past year or >> two wifi has gotten worse,I thought because of interference >> from neighbors, who now number close to 20. But, during a scan >> wavemon consistently reports my access point as the strongest >> signal. Is "strongest signal" not sufficient by itself? >> >> Thanks for reading, >> >> bob prohaska > > > Check the channels they are using - then choose something else Wavemon scan reports in part :DD:8D 63%, -66 dBm, ch 6, 2437 MHz 1 sta, 28% c hGiants Guest 22:FD:13:14:DD:8E 63%, -66 dBm, ch 6, 2437 MHz 28% chan, Ra dmillerhome2 F0:72:EA:49:C6:4A 63%, -66 dBm, ch 6, 2437 MHz ESS, Radio M eATT5Zavd8s 08:9B:B9:01:B7:14 60%, -68 dBm, ch 6, 2437 MHz 9 sta, 58% c hd-link.zefox.net 00:13:46:86:6D:0C 84%, -51 dBm, ch 2, 2417 MHz ESS │ I'm on channel 2 and seemingly have it to myself. Experiments using a metal mixing bowl about 12 inches across allowed me to increase the received signal to -40 dBm and "signal quality" to 70/70. For a while the wifi performance seemed to improve. Next morning the signal was still as high, but there were periods of slow response and complete dropouts when the link went away entirely. Eventually I got rid of the reflector and things went back to normal. That was when wavemon reported that rfkill wouldn't allow wlan0 to start. Could I have been overloading the tranciever? Thanks for writing, bob prohaska --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .