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[KW]

Thing is i'm sure this sky router must be on auto or summat other wise why would i have to change channels every day?

I went through a phase of having to change channels on mine when the local IT guru got his broadband (Sky funnily enough).
A few days of pissing about with the limited crap that O2 supply soon saw me replacing it with something slightly better, then flashing it with a new firmware so I could push the wi-fi transmit power up to a sensible level rather than rely on the crap nanny says is good for us, as well as put it on a channel not available in the UK.

Not fit for purpose then! You shouldn't need to keep changing the channels every time it drops out. Phone 'em back and insist on an engineer.

If it's nothing more than the wi-fi signal from the router being obliterated by a stronger signal from elsewhere, then the "not fit for purpose" argument is out of the door.
Besides, if the router is even suspected as f*cked then O2 replace it immediately anyway.

[Proz]

Try a free program called InSSIDer ... it shows you all the wireless networks around you and what channel they are on ... you then choose a free channel , this rules out interference 

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

 

[Plomien]

Try a free program called InSSIDer ... it shows you all the wireless networks around you and what channel they are on ... you then choose a free channel , this rules out interference 

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

 

I was just about to post this as well its an excellent program, I have found the sweet spot in my area where there is no crossover problems

[Mr Skrunts]

Some interesting stuff mentioned here.

will any of the software monter people trying to access your connection as it seems we still have problems with wireless and someone local to us.  Seems there is also still activivty with mobile phones but just cant put a finger on whether the WiFi and mobile issues are related and have run out of idea's what to check and what to look for as I dont have wireless internet of issues with my phone ( I think)

[Jimbob]

Is the router itself rebooting / resyncing the line, or just the wireless dropping out?

my O2 livebox 2 used to resync a lot, there are alternative BE (the same company) firmware's out for it which go straight on and are much more robust.

mine barely ever resyncs now, and holds a fast speed for the line 

[richardirv]

Is the router itself rebooting / resyncing the line, or just the wireless dropping out?

my O2 livebox 2 used to resync a lot, there are alternative BE (the same company) firmware's out for it which go straight on and are much more robust.

mine barely ever resyncs now, and holds a fast speed for the line 

No the line is stable, I have one machine hard wired in and the internet is fine even when the wireless isn't working. I did have drop out issues when I first got o2 broadband over 12 months ago but that was due to it trying to pull down 16meg and the noise on the line could not cope, so they changed the noise tolerance to make it more stable. It does make it slower but I still get 12meg which is still good in my book.

I tried InSSIDer last night, my wifi was working on channel 8 but it showed an overlap as there are 3 other routers all on channel 11, so I changed to channel 6. This showed no overlap but I couldn't get the laptop to connect to it on 6 at all. It would intermittently appear on the wifi list and then immediately dissapear.

Will try again tonight and see if the other routers in the area are still on channel 11 as I'm sure at least one of them must be automatically changing channels or something which keeps knocking my channel 8 out etc.....

[KW]

I tried InSSIDer last night, my wifi was working on channel 8 but it showed an overlap as there are 3 other routers all on channel 11, so I changed to channel 6. This showed no overlap but I couldn't get the laptop to connect to it on 6 at all. It would intermittently appear on the wifi list and then immediately dissapear.

Manually configure the wi-fi card to work on channel 6

[richardirv]

I tried InSSIDer last night, my wifi was working on channel 8 but it showed an overlap as there are 3 other routers all on channel 11, so I changed to channel 6. This showed no overlap but I couldn't get the laptop to connect to it on 6 at all. It would intermittently appear on the wifi list and then immediately dissapear.

Manually configure the wi-fi card to work on channel 6

I also tried that last night, it didn't work. 

Forgot to mention, my mobile phone won't connect either, same thing ssid shows then disapears intermitently