ADL router?

[MartinT]

Microwave ovens and video senders are known to interfere with the 2.4GHz frequency band that wireless b/g/n uses.

[AlexM]

Microwave ovens blast 700-800w around 2.4Ghz and will nuke WiFi connections if there is any problem with the shielding at all. most ovens start to leak as the door hinges or latches wear.

Agree with the comments re: PSUs going bad over time, and causing crashes, Wireless connections or intermittent lock-ups. ADSL problems also often cause intermittent connection issues with WiFi while the ADSL connection retrains,so follow the diagnostics suggested earlier.

Cheers,
Alex

[Jac Hawk]

Can i add my 10p worth since i work for BT Broadband, 1st off unless your PC and other peripherals are N rated, then an N rated router will not give you anymore intranet speed as it will drop down to probably G, most kit works on G and it's fine, as for routers, IMHO I would get a Linksys every time, or get BT broadband and one of our new hubs which are fab too.

[Jac Hawk]

Microwave ovens and video senders are known to interfere with the 2.4GHz frequency band that wireless b/g/n uses.

the new BT home hub can alter the frequency it sends and receives on to alleviate this problem

[pwood]

Everything except my PS3 is N ready although not sure about the Sonos zone bridge side of it. A dual band router seems to be a desirable feature then I did wonder about that. Oh and a new microwave

[Tim]

We use a Netgear 834Gv2 router, which is seven years old now! It works perfectly, and my hifi, pvr and Blu Ray player are all networked to it. Never had any problems with it.

Amazingly my Netgear DG834g v2 has been switched on 24/7 for the last 6 years without a hitch and for the past 12 months has been in the airing cupboard running very warm indeed. I'm almost wanting it to break so I can get a more modern one.....

(that'll be it now though, I've just give it the kiss of death I reckon )

[pwood]

Just wanted to add that I have replicated the fault 2 days in a row. I can surf all day but when i get up next morning my devices will not connect to the router despite it showing high strength. A quick reboot of the router and everything works fine. The Thomson is going back in soon till i decide on a router. Ideally £50 would have been my budget but thats looking less likely

[dave2010]

Just wanted to add that I have replicated the fault 2 days in a row. I can surf all day but when i get up next morning my devices will not connect to the router despite it showing high strength. A quick reboot of the router and everything works fine. The Thomson is going back in soon till i decide on a router. Ideally £50 would have been my budget but thats looking less likely

If rebooting works, why not put a time switch on the router mains to switch off overnight - say 2am to 6am? A time switch is a lot cheaper than a router - I've picked up several from B & Q bins at £1 each in the last few years. Might give you months or even years of extra life!

Have you checked the firmware yet? Otherwise sounds as though it's working OK from the speed tests. Sometimes problems are due to DNS failures (quite common) or occasionally IP address conflicts. Could be due to DHCP leases expiring also. Some routers don't do DHCP well, so maybe consider static IPs.

[ursus262]

Amazingly my Netgear DG834g v2 has been switched on 24/7 for the last 6 years without a hitch and for the past 12 months has been in the airing cupboard running very warm indeed. I'm almost wanting it to break so I can get a more modern one.....

(that'll be it now though, I've just give it the kiss of death I reckon )

Oh, it's absolutely wonderful. It goes on and on and on.... but like some of the people on this forum

[dave2010]

One thing that I wonder if its related is the fact my SONOS stutters when playing music when the microwave is on. Is this the router? or Sonos related as i can surf the internet without any issue.

Today I was playing with a wireless access point - which I finally got working up to speed, after a period during which it was really, really grindingly slow - http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-W...9549126&sr=1-3

At one point I was trying to make a phone call using a cordless phone, and I noticed that the phone had glitches every time I changed the web page. The phone and the access point were rather close at the time, so obviously there can be interactions. It seems likely that phones can also interfere with wireless streaming data.