I have a wireless access point for the internet at home. It has been
working fine for over a year. Recently it seems not working (Internet
by wire connection is ok). It seems that there is a recent
interference from a neihbor's network (that seems to be faster and
with a stronger signal than ours. Both networks have the same name
"linksys" and both are insecure. I tried making mine secure and
changed its name. This did not solve the problem. I tried changing the
properties of each network so that the neighbor's network will not
connect automatically. Still no luck. Now, sometimes there is a
connection to the internet via our router for few minutes and then it
disconnects but unalbe to connect again until I restart the computer.
I tried removing the neighbor's network from the list of networks
avaialbe but it reappears later. Sometimes our computers connect to
the neighbor's network even
thoug no network shows on the list of available networks. In such
cases, the connection is good and works fine.
Today I brought Mr. wireless Master (a techincian from our local
computer store whose job throughout the day is just setting up
networks and maintaining them). Ater 2 hours of trial he gave up. He
could link the computers together but no internet access. This problem
occurs with all our three computers which are all notebooks of
different brands (Acer, Lenovo and sony). We thought we might try a
different router (our present one is Linsys WAG54G ADSL Gateway).

Any solutions or suggestion to solve this problem so that I can have
wireless access to the internet and also to make a wireless network to
share files and peripherals, such as printers, among our computers.

Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by keystroke-ga on 02 Nov 2006 05:44 PST

Hello bahraini,

Try changing the channel transmission number on the
wireless router that you own to something that is 3 channels away from
your neighbours'.

See if that works!

--keystroke-ga

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Clarification of Question by bahraini-ga on 03 Nov 2006 03:08 PST

Thank you keystroke.

Changing the wireless channel was very important. Also I needed to
change the name of my network to make it differnt from the neighbors'.
I also found that making my channel secure helped. With these three
changes my problem was solved.

Thank you for you excellent answer.

Hello bahraini,

Thank you for accepting my clarification as an answer to your question.

Try changing the channel transmission number on the
wireless router that you own to something that is 3 channels away from
your neighbours'.

Good luck! :)

--keystroke-ga

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Clarification of Answer by keystroke-ga on 03 Nov 2006 06:40 PST

As an addendum to my answer-- this wireless technician that you
brought in does not know what he's doing if he couldn't find this
problem after two hours of "work".... I would think twice before
giving him any more of my business if I were you.  Just some friendly
advice! :)

--keystroke-ga

The answer by keystroke was excellent. I learned from it about
changing router channels. This helped stop the interference from
neighbor's networks. I found that giving my network a unique name that
does not conflict with the neighbors' network names and making my
network secure were also important.