Network intermittently dropping

[hwttdz]

My network seems to be dropping every few minutes to few hours. There are a lot of networks in the area (apartment in NYC) and I wonder if it might be due to competing traffic. Any ideas for how to tell what channels other networks are on? or other modifications to router settings that might improve performance in this situation?

Additionally the "Invalid Misc" in iwconfig is counting quite quickly.

[jmoorse]

Channel contention can cause this. 'iwlist [wlan adapter] scan' will show you nearby SSIDs

You can also use inssider to scan for networks near yours. http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/linux/

For B/G channels 1/6/11 are non-overlapping, you can try changing your channel to one of the 3 above.

[garvinrick4]

channel 6 is router default in most all routers for 2.4 ghz so if you choose the 1 or 11 channel
as per post above you will have better chance on getting less traffic.
I like

nm-toolto check out others around me.
inSSider app worked real well in Windows as per linux have not had as much success will have
to try again though.

##What card and driver are you using:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 network
Not iwlagn driver is it:

[hwttdz]

Here's the network situation, I'm superduper, I moved to 1 to avoid collisions with voila1, but if 6 and 11 are totally non overlapping, maybe I should go to 6 because then I would also avoid issues with A163 (but the power is so diminished at that point is it really an issue?).


BSSID PWR Beacons #Data, #/s CH MB ENC CIPHER AUTH ESSID
00:16:B6:67:5E:B3 -47 36 3 0 1 54e WPA2 TKIP PSK superduperGx4
00:1F:33:D1:AD:38 -54 34 0 0 11 54e. WEP WEP Voila1
30:46:9A:96:4B:50 -63 31 0 0 11 54e WPA2 CCMP PSK GODLoVeSYoUmOrE
00:26:F3:1D:A1:65 -64 23 0 0 1 54 . WEP WEP A163
00:1B:63:2A:F3:37 -66 48 0 0 6 54e. WPA2 CCMP PSK fir_brook
A0:21:B7:B9:D8:A5 -67 49 0 0 3 54e. WPA2 CCMP PSK Moira67Cat
00:23:97:FF:C5:33 -74 43 4 0 9 54 WPA2 TKIP PSK parallelexit
00:18:3A:C3:11:EA -76 26 3 0 6 54 WEP WEP TAMUNA
00:1E:4A:32:6A:E4 -80 3 0 0 6 54 . OPN guest-net
00:1E:4A:32:6A:E1 -81 2 0 0 6 54 . WPA TKIP MGT paris
00:1E:4A:32:6A:E5 -81 6 0 0 6 54 . WPA TKIP PSK priv-psk
00:14:6C:FD:E6:A8 -82 32 0 0 11 54 . WPA TKIP PSK zacamina
00:13:F7:BC:EF:00 -82 5 0 0 1 54 . WEP WEP EEFE
00:22:6B:41:FC:0F -82 6 0 0 1 54e WPA TKIP PSK Darci Network
00:1E:4A:32:6A:E0 -81 5 0 0 6 54 . WPA2 CCMP MGT athens
00:1E:4A:32:6A:E2 -83 4 0 0 6 54 . OPN rome
1C:AF:F7:D0:4A:59 -83 5 0 0 6 54e. WEP WEP We Can Hear You Having Sex
00:24:6C:09:38:30 -83 4 0 0 11 54e. WPA2 CCMP MGT athens
00:1E:4A:32:6A:E6 -81 7 0 0 6 54 . WEP WEP vocera-w

My network adapter:


09:01.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301]
Subsystem: Edimax Computer Co. Device [1432:7128]
Kernel driver in use: rt61pci

[jmoorse]

Stick with 1 for a bit and let us know if you have the same issues. Cheers,