Wireless speakers kicking me off of wifi

I recently purchased a new panasonic home theater system with wireless rear speakers. After setting it up, I began to notice that I would lose my wireless connection sporadically after which, I would be unable to connect for some time. After perusing the panasonic forum I see that a few others are having this issue as well, however, I could not find a solution to the problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to change the settings on my Linksys router or my Intel proset wireless wifi card to prevent my speakers from kicking me off?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Chris

 

Log into your router. the linksys router address i think is 192.168.1.1 the user is usually left empty and the pw default is admin so log in and turn to the wireless page. change your wireless broadcast mhz to something else. To be more specific find out first if you can from the stereo manual what the range is and change the range on the router to something different.

 

Thanks AppleUsr! I'll give it a shot!

 

Ok, so I checked this out and the wireless speakers have a range of 2.400 to 2.483, however, my linksys router only covers 2.412 to 2.462, so picking a non-conflicting channel isn't an option.

Any other suggestions? Is there a way that I can configure the router to choose a channel that isn't already taken by the speakers?

 

Unfortunately, no. The FCC limits what frequencies you can use. The only other option would be to use 802.11a or 802.11n which can operate in the 5GHz range, but many routers and cards don't support that currently, at least not the inexpensive stuff. It's either upgrade your wireless networking hardware or get new speakers. Or just deal with the dropouts.

 

Thanks for the tips, it looks like I'll just have to get a new router.