In the US, there are 11 standard communication channels (Europe and Asia have 14) which can be used for all mobile devices such as cell phone, blackberry devices, and portable hand held two-way radios. Each of these mobile devices use a channel (or frequency) to broadcast on.
and so does your wireless router whether it be for business or pleasure, and all routers out of the box default to channel 1. This leads to "noise" on the line when one or more of these modems are in close proximity.
What this means for you is that you wireless laptop and/or pc keeps going up and down even though your signal on your taskbar is strong. you lose your internet connection or you lose your vpn tunnel back to your office.
so if you are experiencing this problem, First see how many other wireless networks you can see to connect to at any given time on your network. If it's more than three and especially if any of those networks are business oriented, you might be competing for channel space.
Then, check out your routers homepage and change the channel. Experiment and see which one works best for you!!
*** now what I mean about your router/firewall homepage is that instead of installing an application to control your wireless router and/or firewall, companies are now using internal web pages. so you pop open your favorite web browser, type in the address from your manual and up pops a homepage with all your settings. It scrolls, navigates, uses links just like any other web page.
but don't forget to check our your router/firewall's Internet web page, most have a free discussion forum with confused people just like you. it's a techie secret!!!
