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    Changing Channels

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by hlesley, Dec 15, 2004.

  1. hlesley

    hlesley Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a Linksys WRT54GS router and a WPC54GS notebook adapter card.
    When I installed them the default was channel was 6. I can change the channel in the router. How do you change the channel for the notebook adapter?
    My notebook adapter profile is:
    Wireless mode Infrastructure
    Transfer rate Auto
    Channel Auto
    Encryption None
    Authentication Auto

    Is the notebook adapter supposed to automatically match the router channel? I changed the router channel to 1, but the notebook would not connect to the network. I changed back to channel 6 and it connected.

    Thanks

    Herman
     
    hlesley, Dec 15, 2004
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  2. jchastain

    jchastain Notebook Consultant

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    The laptop does typically scan across the channels looking for a signal. Sometimes it can take a few minutes. If you pull up the network connectivity window you can manually tell it to start searching and watch its progress.
     
    jchastain, Dec 15, 2004
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    The probable reason it couldn't see channel 1 was interference. 802.11 B & G share spectrum with telephones and microwave ovens and all kinds of other services. If something else was using "channel 1" your laptop couldn't.

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    olyteddy, Dec 24, 2004
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    Well some notebook adapters automatically scan across it's entire "channel" so, if you were to change the channel number on the router than the notebook adapter should scan all the channels and find it; because, that is what mine did.

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    TOSHIBAm35x, Dec 27, 2004
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    phroenips Notebook Guru

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    Another issue might be the speedbooster...if you have that enabled, it will only work on channel 6 since the way it works is by channel-bonding (therefore using part of the channel 1 and channel 11 spectrum.

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    phroenips, Dec 28, 2004
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