Is your home wireless router not working properly or seems to be working on it's own? Then listen up, especially if you live in a condensed area like an apartment building.
Many habitancy bring home wireless routers, plug in their Internet and away they go! Great, it works without doing anything! Well, here's what's going on and what you should do about it.
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Out of the box all routers are set to what's called as default configuration, No safety enabled and broadcast frequency on channel 6 (2.437), so what does all this mean? Well, with no safety anyone within proximity can log on, surf your Internet and maybe explore your files. Most habitancy are aware of this now and take action, all you have to do is run the disk that came with the router and apply the settings via the software wizard, it's easy so I won't get into that.
What I want to positively discuss is the channel frequency, probably one of the most overlooked issues on home and office routers today. If you have two or more routers within logon proximity (next door) and they are on the same frequency then they will fight for the air waves causing the loser to disconnect. Like I said, most routers out of the box (all that I've seen) are set to channel 6 out of 12 channels, so my guidance is convert the channel! an additional one indication of an air wave fight is the router gets hot by working too hard.
So to fix this, all you need to do is log on to the router and make the change, all routers are accessed by what's called an Ip address, you can find the address positively by Googling the make and request for the Ip. For example "Linksys Ip address", here are the ones that I know: Linksys 192.168.1.1, Dlink 192.168.0.1, Netgear 192.168.0.1, Smc 192.168.2.1 it's practically all the time one of these three (two are the same).
Now take the Ip address and type it into the address bar in your web browser, this will passage the router's interface, it looks like a web page, if it asks for a password it's ordinarily Admin or no password (use Google! "linksys password"). All router interfaces are distinct so you will have to find the channel setting, it will be in the wireless options menu and will be drop down list of channels, I suggest choosing channel 1 or 11, and don't forget to "apply changes" or "save changes" afterwards.
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