I just bough my XDAIIs. Live in Sydney Australia.
I'm generally happy with it but the wifi reception is really bad.
I work at a Uni where we have a huge wireless Network with over 150 basestations and I work in the ITS department where we have at least 4 wireless access points. 3 of them a A radio and one is the BG radio.
From what I've seen the XDAIIs used the BG radio and not the A but I have been reasing several posts and it looks like the wifi antenna is very weak.
I too took my XDAIIs right in front of the base station set the reception to FULL and could barely manage a signal and even when it did manage a signal I couldn't connect.
I have
ROM Version 1.12.62
ROM Date 10/04/04
Radio Version: 1.02.00
Protocol: 1337.32
ExtROM Version: 1.12.925WWE
Is it possible to update the ROM on the XDAIIs yet with a later version such as ROM 2.02.t1WWE. I see posts inidcating its possible on XDAII but not XDAIIs
Peter Birkle
Peter,
I haven't bought a Blue Angel yet, primarily for this reason. However, I've been watching these forums closely to see if anyone knows what the problem is with WiFi reception.
So far, no one has posted a solution, and I fear it's not a ROM or software related issue, but a hardware design issue. My guess is that the WiFi antenna design is extremely poor and either:
1. Internals are interfering with the reception of the WiFi signal
2. The case (which I do believe is some metal alloy) might actually be preventing the internal antenna from receiving external signals.
Hope it helps. By the way, the Blue Angel only supports 802.11b, not 11g or 11a.
Some wireless defination
802.11a - almost proprietary wireless network (All PDA based devices are 802.11b, as per other reply)
802.11b - standard 11mb, and what has been mainstay of most wireless devices up until past 6 months
802.11g - standard 54mb wireless.
Sure there are some others in the range afterwards, but next comes configuration.
Most A wireless networks only communicate with other A networks, few were bought out with interopaeratibilty.
B networks will communicate with B Networks
Most G networks are set by default as communicate with G only (The fast setting), and are not changed to support both, as with many wireless networks, slows the entire speed to the lowest connected speed.
Nearly all G wireless networks are backward compatible with B networks and hence why is displayed on box B/G
Hope this clears it up.
For some real run, get wififofum and a bluetooth GPS, and plot out the access points, then hand to your security audit guy, watch those eyes turn red.
I'm not sure it is a hardware issue because mine works absolutely fine and I've spoken to others who have no problems. Anywhere in the house I get a really good signal (about two thirds on the signal quality indicator) and even outside I get a signal. And that is on best battery setting. A friend of mine lives three doors down (i.e. a lot of bricks in the way!) and I JUST get a signal in his house with best wi-fi performance set.
This would suggest the hardware is fine. Certainly it is on a par with my Dell 510m laptop with a centrino chip.
The only thing I've noticed is that the signal indicator drops off VERY quickly as I move away from the house. So it will stay on two thirds for quite some time and then suddenly drop down to almost nothing about 30 meters away.
ROM 1.12.62 WWE
Rom Date 10/04/04
Radio 1.02.00
WiFi fine on Cingular Siemens Sx66
Following these posts led me to have low expectation of the WiFi capability of the SX66, but having received mine on Monday, I am pleased to state, that at least on my unit, the WiFi is working great. On my AP, I run MAC filtering, 128bit WEP and shared authentication. To ease the installation, I turned my AP back to OPEN Authentication, WEP OFF, and MAC filtering OFF. In this config, the SX66 immediately found and connected to my AP. This also gave me an easy way to determine the MAC address of the SX66 for inclusion in my AP and my router tables (ie PPC Wireless LAN Manager MAIN tab). The WiFi signal strength indicated was on par with what my two other WiFi notebooks indicated(ie around 3/4 max). Taking this one step at a time, I then added the SX66's MAC address to my AP and router tables and turned on MAC filtering. That worked okay, so I then set the AP to WEP encryption and entered my 128 HEX (yes HEX) WEP key into the SX66. BINGO, that worked as well. Then I set the AP and the SX66 into Shared Authentication mode and that worked as well. So, I have my SX66 connected my well guarded WiFi AP with full filtering, encryption and authentication active.
As I mentioned, in testing the WiFi capability, I am finding it at least as good as what my Dlink DWL650+ PCCards running in my notebooks and it also seems to have similar range.
I did note that if you leave the Power Save Mode in the default setting ("Best Battery"),it really dogs down the perfomance of WiFi. I moved mine back to "Best Performance" and the web browsing speed is on par with my notebooks.
All in all, I am very pleased with the WiFi connectivity.
david
wi fi reception
Hi, I don't know about wi fi and all, but could it be an issue where there just isn't a good signal..or the signal you receive depends on where you are as it does if you have a tower close by or not? Sorry if I seem like I don't know what I'm talking about...because I don't. I've just been getting into these devices in the last 6 months and really behind...I'm wanting a blue angel (early next year), but want to make sure it's right for me and weigh the good against the bad
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Hi,
maybe something im missing here but i was at a friends house the other day and he has a wireless access point set up (open with no encrption set up yet ...just for testing purposes). so basically he is broadcasting his SSID. I turned my wifi on my m2000 and it picked up his access point and showed me that my phone had connected, with the WIFI signal enabled...however i could not browse or use the net which tells me that i was not picking up an IP address...wats going on here? any clues?
thanks for any help
K
kadabra said:
Hi,
maybe something im missing here but i was at a friends house the other day and he has a wireless access point set up (open with no encrption set up yet ...just for testing purposes). so basically he is broadcasting his SSID. I turned my wifi on my m2000 and it picked up his access point and showed me that my phone had connected, with the WIFI signal enabled...however i could not browse or use the net which tells me that i was not picking up an IP address...wats going on here? any clues?
thanks for any help
K
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if the AP's DHCP sevice is off,you can't get the IP automatically
The DHCP is dodgy on my belkin router, so I have each PC and my BA set up to use a specific IP address, rather than rely on the iffy DHCP.
You may find you need to input a DNS if you do it this way.. just copy one off a working PC
Forgive me if I am talking utter c#$* but if you have established a connection have you not been allocated an IP via DCHP? Just taking a step back from router problems, when setting up the wireless connection did you set up for work or internet profile?
simjo, what you say is prefectly logical, but I have seen cases (as the thread poster was suggesting) where a connection has been created, but no IP addy issued. At these times, no internet access etc is possible. i.e. connection is said to be active, but it is useless.
My solution for this problem was as I posted above, dont bother with DHCP. Set IP addresses manually.
I have a similar problem on a new M2000 (so I'm probably overlooking something)
I can connect my PC and laptop to my router (D-Link 614) on WiFi without any problem
The M2000 can "see" the WiFi but there is no connection
When I try to view pages via GPRS there is no response
When I try MSN Messenger, same again there is no response
I've tried several soft and hard reboots, but no difference
I also find switching the "phone" on is very difficult as I am warned to "The phone is off. Do you want to turn Wireless on"
I then turn Flight Mode on, but am then warned that Orange GPRS cannot connect
I have managed to make some test phone calls, but the menus seem to be taking me round in circles...
Any advice welcome
My Best Roms - WIRELESS PROBLEMS FIXED!!
XDA IIs UK from O2 - WIRELESS PROBLEMS FIXED!!
1. Best ROM so far without doubt for me is the BA_TMNL_14200_119_11300_Ship from T-MOBILE
AND its the fastest ROM ive ever used!
2. Best ROM (slightly slower)
XDA 1.42 115 T-Mobile Firmware (uses Radio 1.13)
3. I-Mates 1.40 WWE with Radio 1.13
still had an issue with audio dropping from incoming calls
If you've seen any of my previous posts you'll see the hell i've been in trying to get anything to work with these ROMS, now it ALL works. and I dont say that lightly!
i tried the last 2 factory ROMS from O2 UK 140.237 & 140.242 which is there latest and I had WIFI nightmares with both of those..
I must have spent 30 hours swapping ROMs and this is the best Ive found so far now. Seamless Wireless Hookup everytime! I have Rude FM 88.2 Streaming Live through my Linksys Router at 64k 44khz using Pocket Music 3.2 , Surfing the Net, even the GPRS is stil enabled with the WIFI signal, a special lead pipes the audio to my Amplifier it's been on all day playing variouse stations, Windows Media Player streaming well, even download Skype over the XDA and installed it.
BT - WIFI interfirence
Try this on your Excalibur:
Establish connection with BT headset
Dial voice number
Activate WIFI at the same time
Did you hear any crackling and noise in your BT headset?
i'll try this a bit later when i get the chance, but isn't it common to have some interference if data is transmitting for both since they're both operating on 2.4ghz? also, what headset are you using? bt 1.2 should be better than 1.1
JwY said:
i'll try this a bit later when i get the chance, but isn't it common to have some interference if data is transmitting for both since they're both operating on 2.4ghz? also, what headset are you using? bt 1.2 should be better than 1.1
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Well, I don't have this problem with TyTn.
I've tried Nokia BH 900 and Jabra JX10 - both 2.0
I'm glad i saw this thread. I'm having the same issue. I cannot stream music to my motorola ht820 bluetooth stereo headset if i use wifi. It just keeps stopping and freaks out on me. I was having issues streaming videos to my dash via wifi and using the headset also. I could not stream 100kbps videos over wifi! I thought the phone just wasn't powerful enough. (although it's not.. I could stream 300kbps videos on my old hp 3615 via wifi fine.)
I just was able to stream a video at 300kbps fine without bluetooth turned on using wifi and it worked fine. Grr!!
BT and wifi both use the same frequency.
I think you shoud try an other channel for the wifi. It may solve your problem.
Wifi how do you set IPs/DNS info?
did i over look something i can't figure out how to set IP, DNS and Subnet for my phone. I've gone to every connection screen did i over look something?
Internet via WiFi - Wireless Access Points Only
I am not subscribing to the data service on my cellular net. I only want to be able to access the net and email when I am in range of my WAP at home/work or at my favorite hot spots. I've got the WiFi settings so that I am connecting to my WAP and can see the SSID when it connects.. I've tried adjusting the settings in the IE options and am at the point where once in a while (1 out of 8 or so ) I can open access one page of a web site.. but can not navigate any further. If I type a different URL in it says locating and loading then times out.... what did I miss???
T-Mobile Dash / Re-ROM-ed to Excaliber.
All other functions seem to be OK.
Thanks, XmP
I've seen this as well. Playing around earlier today, I installed Opera Mini. Opera works fine over wifi or edge. I believe that the issue involves one or more IE bugs involving either the size (fragmentation?) of cache and/or scripts.
Also, Opera Mini isn't a solution (yet) either. It works great once installed and launched from the installer - but has to be uninstaller and reinstalled to work after you exit.
I can't wait for a linux port
I run into this problem all the time at my college and at my home. I turn on my wifi and the phone defaults to the network instead of wifi. I am on cingular with the 8125, I was using I/S PL 1.08 i just updated to cingular rom 2.24.10.1 WWE. I have tried IE, Opera, Mozilla (Minimo) and another i forget the name of. In all I preferred Opera but I feel Mozilla will be the best once the bugs are gone.
Oh yah and when I try and connect to the wifi network at my school they require a redirect to login through bluesocket. That is just too difficult for my little wizard and I rarely get through that system.
External antenna jack on Excaliber/Dash... is it just for GSM? or also WiFi?
Anyone had experience with the external antenna jack on the back of the Dash (under the mirror button)? Just wondering if using this connector would improve performance on WiFi? or is it designed only for GSM reception?
I found a cable which fits the connector perfectly. Thanks for your responses.
Issue solved!
I rebooted my wireless router and everything works great...
Bump!
I'm guessing the absence of answers means that the settings cannot be changed (or may need a reg hack to do so) - I can't find them anywhere either...
so it works for an external wifi as well?
yes, it is possible to change these settings (or at least the IP adress). I have read about it, but can't remeber where. It's possible to chnge it somewhere in the registry, can't be changed directly through settings. If I find it, where I read about it, I will post it here ...
As I remember the external is designed for car holder external antenna, not for WiFi. You may find at most of the GSM mobile back also have this.
This was posted over at howardforums too. What, you didn't search the internet endlessly to find an answer?
Above poster is correct, it's for GSM only. Like I said over at HoFo, unless you're lost in the backwoods, I don't think it's going to help much. Plus, it looks a tad silly!
Thanks for all your responses. Yeah, I posted the question in a couple of forums (the level of expertise varies widely, as you know!).
Reason I asked... we want to be able to access realtime weather conditions while at a remote nature facility on a barrier island here on the West Coast of Florida -- you know, like hurricanes There is a weak WiFi signal from an access point about 1/4 mile away. I simply wanted to establish a stronger link by using an external antenna.
So although it might have looked silly, it was to be a quick fix for instant weather updates (like radar), when needed.
Wifi connection sloooow. For you also?
Hi, with my stock htc s620, establishing a connection to a wifi network that is already saved (home & work), takes around 1 to 2 mins.
What often happens also is that it goes to sleep before even connecting (with me waiting in IE or mail to clic on a favorite or do a send & receive action).
I can't understand this since a nokia n80 will take seconds and it's almost instantaneous on my macbook.
Are there any tricks or software that can accelerate this (unless I'm the only one to have this problem)?
Seems to be a problem of your hardware or a configuration problem. I have energy save mode enabled and usually it takes two or three seconds to connect, sometimes up to ten seconds, if it has extremly low WiFi-Signal.
interesting, I'm going to investigate on the software part first... You really think it could be a hardware issue?
What's sure is that once the connection is established, it's fast and doesn't drop.
BTW, do you mean seconds after the handset is waken up from sleep?
Hum, after looking in my Remove section on my handset, nothing appears, is there some kind of registry cleaner for smartphone?
@ all,
it might sound a bit surprising, but I dont get my new artemis ( i now own one with wifi !, my hero didnt!),
working with the wireless of my belkin n1 router!
everytime i enter the mac adress into the router, wlan stops alltogether! ( do i need to enter the mac adress?)
entering the normal wpa-psk passwords into wm6.1 vanilla or b&b5, the connection constantly changes between available, but not connecting, and unavailable... even when sitting right next to the router!
any ideas?
help highly appreciated!
greetz
thormdac
news:
got it working for now-- changed wlan channel in rpouter to channel11, which is preset in wm6.1!
is that how its done?
Update:
most of the times the router just kills the wlan function all in all once i try to connect with the artemis!
Need to reboot router to get it running again!
Where am i going wrong?
p.s. no, i aint a novice
I've got the same roblem mate. Not got a clue what to do ?
Had the same issue with a Belkin N router yesterday. Solution I dumped it went down to Maplins and got a Netgear. Plugin and I was away.
Had flashed the rom serveral times (Win 5, 6, 6.1 some of the cooked roms) nothing worked was thinking it was a hardware failure.
Dont' appear to matter how you set the belkin nothing works.
Thou oddly my Exec connects with it just fine.
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Solution I dumped it ...
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Gee, that would for sure make me one unhappy pal!
Anybody around here has another idea!
Possibly some tips on "Must does" ! for connecting via wifi with artemis! Whats with the mac address-thing?!!!
Greetz
To be honest, I've looked at dozens of sites searching for a solution to this issue. Everything from flashing the ROM (Device and router), enter MAC on the router, set a IP address, changing channels, security settings and nothing appear to work with the Belkin N family.
My experience with Belkin has not been good (Tech support has always been first class).
The first router (Cheap 54g) would run for 2 hours then lockup, requiring a reset of both the router and cable modem). Replaced by Belkin after several days talking to tech support.
The second router (Same 54g unit, different Version number) Ran fine until you moved data about, anything downloading above 150k locked the router. Wired connections could do 300k then lock up. Replaced by Belkin.
The third unit (Upgraded to a 2 stick version for free) DOA. Replaced by Belkin
The forth unit (Same 2 stick version) worked data transfers good but would not allow wifi connections other than WEP 64. Firmware update would then WEP 128. Replaced by Belkin.
The Fifth unit (Same 2 stick version, different version) Wifi worked with all settings. However with wifi on all wired connections ran like a 56k modem. Replaced by Belkin.
The sixth unit (Upgraded to the N) Worked fine. Wired connections fine, wifi was a bit hit or miss, two Toshiba laptops connected fine, the Dell laptop never connected. Belkins own N usb dongle also never connected.
My Orbit never connected to any of the Belkins, the Exec did with some and others not.
This issue is not limited to Belkin, if you look about, other makers routers also appear to have this issue.
The cheap Netgear (£35) works just fine for me. Took 5 minutes to setup. Everything in the house connects. I`m happy after 7 months of Belkin issues.
uiuiui,
what a story!
just so we dont get us wrong here: had my n1 now for about 6months, and its running just fine with all my notebooks! - just since trying to connect with my artemis i am running into probs!
A theory of this mornings trials:
any way of changing the preconfigured broadcast channel 11 within the artemis? --- seems to me the channelchanging is causing the hangups!
will try setting the router to channel 11 and see what happens!
greetz
Ive set channel to 6 in the N router, the Art/Orbit will find it and go though the motions of connecting and make it unavailable (our problem with N routers). The Network setting will show its on ch6 (if you can there before it becomes unavailable). Then goes to ch11.
I think the Art/Orbit just runs in sequence though the channels, if it gets a lock it uses that channel. If not it moves on, I think we just see ch11 because its the last ch available in the scan.
Have just played with the Netgear channels and the Art/Orbit connects with every channel, the Network setting page shows the correct channel that the routers broadcasting.
So it don't appear that the channel is hard coded to the Art/Orbit.
Ok stumbled across this thread a little too late. Our Linksys wrt54g was not able to handle the kind of data we were transferring and moved to a Belkin_N1 router, I have an HTC Wizard but same symptoms, if I try to connect to Belkin I can not connect to anything WIFI before a soft-reset, I get prompted for key fine once and during connection something messes up the wifi radio, I am not sure if its a software or hardware issue but got the same issue with an SMC router, while my D-Link at home is working fine. I wasted so much time flashing ROMs and what not. Thanks for everyone who has put info here, somebody can read here and save the pain of hitting the wall with frustration.
I'm stuck, bamboozled and totaly F***ed off...
In other words... HELP!!!!!!
I've just bought off ebay a lovely XDA IIs (Blue angel) after my old XDA II died (A moments silence please in memory of a lost soul (ok XDA ))
This NEW one is great. But WiFi... Yes now there's the bugger....
I've got 2 wifi routers. a orange livebox (Inventel wireless magic, connects to a ADSL line) and a Netgear Rangemax (WNR834B, DSL router). I'm using the netgear as a network switch for 2pcs and 1 media server than I need to connect up to the net.
But try as I might (and I've been trying for 3 days now) I cannot get the XDA to connect to EITHER routers...
In fact the XDA wont find the connections at all, but using the hitchhiker software I finds BOTH routers at full strength. I've set keys up tried different channels everything I can see might be a problem. I even turned off the passwords for the wifi but no luck.
The livebox runs with WEP/WPA security and the Netgear is WPA-PSK(Tkip) + WPA2-PSK(AES). I've tried all kinds of keys from simple "im1fed2up3with4this5crap6" to full alpha-numeric 28character keys. Nothing seems to work.
Can anyone out there give me a few pointers... I'm beginning to feel a little bit... Lost.... ?!?!
Thanks People.
That's kinda weird. Though your BA can't see the connections but using hitchhiker it finds it and in full strength. Have you tried soft/hard resetting your BA?
Still problems
Hi sorry for the late reply.
I've done both Soft/Hard resets twice now.
When doing the hard resets I only install the basic .net settings required to get Hitchhiker working. Nothing still.
I've played with more settings on the routers tonight (lowered the speed settings on the Netgear from 240Mbps to 54Mbps), enabled WEP only on the same router. The Orange router doesn't seem to have as many options.
Hitchhiker still reports that the routers are at full signal strength but for the first time the BA reported that it found BOTH routers. Shame it still wouldn't connect to either (even with the new settings/pass keys). In fact other than the initital "I've found these routers" message the wireless manager wont show any signal strength. Clicking on tools/network cards shows both my routers as being there but I can't get a connection.
Any ideas.
BTW When using Hitchhiker it shows all the nearby routers with Large padlocks (passkey locked. No probs there) but mine are shown with a large antenna, small padlocks, and small (windows?) shield... does that help??
Hope it does.
Thanks for your help.
Hi everyone,
I have my Nexus 7 connected to an verizon actiontec router. I am getting terrible wifi with WPA2 security enables. Loading websites takes forever and youtube constantly gives network error. I changed the encryption to WEP and its not disconnecting as much but I would prefer to run WPA2.
Anyone have any suggestions on what is causing the lag and disconnects? 2 laptops and 2 android phones no issues.
Try switching to 802.11g. The N7 is quite flaky in 802.11n mode with a lot of routers.
If you are using WEP, you are in effect forcing 802.11g mode, since 802.11n requires WPA2.
tni.andro said:
Try switching to 802.11g. The N7 is quite flaky in 802.11n mode with a lot of routers.
If you are using WEP, you are in effect forcing 802.11g mode, since 802.11n requires WPA2.
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Thanks for the reply tni,
Is this a hardware issue or a software issue? Could hardwiring and IP number and switching back to WPA2 possibly fix the issue?
cloves said:
Is this a hardware issue or a software issue?
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Driver and/or firmware. The Nexus 4, which has pretty much the same Wifi hardware, also has quite a few complaints about Wifi issues.
Could hardwiring and IP number and switching back to WPA2 possibly fix the issue?
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It's highly unlikely that a fixed IP will make a difference.
Not sure if that came across, but you can use WPA2 with 802.11g (you need to configure that at the router).
Well I changed the router over to WPA2 and then in the advance preferences set it to 'Legacy Mode' to support only 802.11bg and the tablet seems to not be having many hang ups even with youtube. I'll post back if anything changes. Thanks and hopefully this helps a lot of people out there.
I'm using N7 2013 with two different routers,
Both with WPA2, and 802.11n.
No problems at all.
Well, I just did a heck of a lot of work on the IEEE 802.11 protocol suite. I am in no way an expert, but I picked up a bunch of interesting factoids.
- In the 802.11n protocol implementation, all devices must have 802.11n supported NICs. This includes all the clients, not just router. If you have even a single device that is doing legacy 802.11b/g while all the other client NICs are doing 802.11n, then the router will not do 802.11n for any device. Yes, all or nothing deal and the router does not show it. I used Wireshark to confirm this situation exists by drilling down a ton of 802.11 data frames. Despite the router staying set in the drop down menu to 802.11n, under the hood, all the devices dropped to 802.11g.
- Even worse, I know I have clients and router NICs that all support 802.11n, yet I get dropped into the 802.11g protocol. To try to find out what happened, I started from scratch. I put my router into 802.11n which lists it as "performance", then added a static IP to my Nexus 7. I immediately had 58Mb/sec. since 58Mb/sec > 54Mb/sec, I figured maybe I did get 802.11n this time since 802.11g gets 54Mb/sec in optimal conditions. When I went to check which protocol my Nexus 7 is using, I moved it in front of me, a distance no more than 18 inches, and saw my signal drop to next to nothing. I pulled up the Nexus 7's WiFi advanced settings to find out that I now only have 5Mb/sec and the protocol is now 802.11g. This means while roaming, if you hit a sufficient enough degradation in the signal, the Nexus 7 drops your 802.11n status like a hot potato and no, you can't get it back unless you reset everything. I mean at least, to date, I have not found a way to keep a device configured to stay with 802.11n even if the bandwidth drops.
Since I was given a drop down menu in my router as to which protocol I wanted to use and since the 802.11n specs say it is all or nothing, I thought that the router would enforce 802.11n and not allow a legacy NIC to connect to it. This is far from the case. Why they even give us a drop down menu if they are always going to do 802.11b/g/n anyway is beyond me.
Now that I have seen Nexus's wireless protocol drop from 802.11n to 802.11g outside of my control, I want to find all devices that misbehave like this and see if there is anything I can do to force the client to stay on 802.11n. Obviously, I also have to eliminate dead and near dead zones.
Just thought I'd share the all the fun I've had getting to this abysmal point.
I will dig into our smart phones and tablets another day to see if I can force it to stay with 802.11n even its Rx signal attenuated for a few seconds.
I hope this helps others and if your experience is different then mine, I'd love to here what your findings are.
You may be fighting interference not only from the neighbor's WiFi, but appliances in your home. Possible sources for rf noise would include dimmer switches, CRT and plasma screens, microwaves, cordless phones. An rf detector can be bought or built or an am radio tuned between stations can work.
I've seen anywhere from 5mbps to 300mbps connect speed, it can change in one session if the router dynamically adjusts throughput. Also, there may be a power level setting in the router setup to get your signal farther above the noise floor.
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An easy rf detector: single coil electric guitar pickup and cheap practice amplifier sourced from a guitar shop. Ask the guitar tech for a good used p/u, they swap them out all the time.
The wider channels used for faster throughput will be more susceptible to interference than the g standard,IMO.
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