Lost all WI-FI in our house

[wally01]

And when i say all i mean all .
Happened yesterday at around 4 pm no net ,thought my adapter had gone legs up ,tried another one same deal would not pickup my router ,WTF tried another router and another modem ,none of them seemed to be transmitting no problems with son's laptop through the Ethernet ports all good ,gave up after 3 hours of removing and replacing things ..
Even my old netgear router would not transmit it's ssid just not there at all .
I checked everything through the interface wireless was on security was on i changed the ssid name the security password to a new one rebooted and nothing had changed no signal swapped cables modems anything i had to findout whats going on but no luck,gave up went to bed ..

Well today it just got stranger as the morning went on .
Seeing as i can hotspot all of the devices we have here i did just that i used 4 different devices and no luck nothing in the house would even show that they were active ,tried the wifes Iphone was the only thing that seemed to be alive in the house ,nothing would connect to that either my Daughters Galaxy note 2 10.1 was next ,well it showed up as a new network but this only showed up on 3 other devices in the house wifes Iphone my pc and sons laptop .
But even after in putting the code to connect it would not neither would anything else kept telling me incorrect password no matter what i did there was no way anything would work ,the network adapter on my wifes pc would not even enable same as mine ,i had a dlink usb adapter to try aswell that sort of worked every just would not work .

My sons laptop would display the hotspot but you couldn't connect to that either there was no way anything would work ,i thought my wireless network had taken out everything in the house ..

My HTC as a hotspot would not even show up ,same as my Galaxy Tab none of them ,and when they did no connection even when security was turned off and made as an open network the only device that found this was sons lappy nothing else ..
I have used these device before as hotspots and they work fine ..

So i went and got a 15 metre cat 5 cable from bunnings ran it from the Billion router to the netgear router to my PC plugged it all in and my wireless network showed up WTF checked wifes Pc sure enough there it is open network connected to it straight away as did everything else disabled wireless on my pc it is running cabled at the moment it connects to the wireless network now no problem at all HAD 2 APs cancels one turned wlan back on on the Billion and bugger me dead it works every device sees it and they are all connected right now ,it was like something had blocked all wi-fi in the house ..

I have had this network setup for around 7 years with no major probs at all except this ..
Everything is running now well most things i have to setup my WD Media centre the WII and my printer just strange ..
wayne

[team illucid]

it was like something had blocked all wi-fi in the house ..

Sounds like someone in your neighbourhood had a microwave bomb going - tweaks to a microwave can create a blackout area through interference. I haven't seen one operational for years as 'N' series routers offer different frequencies of operation, but old school wifi was always susceptible.

Highly unlikely that is what it was, but a novel way to annoy your neighbours

[Brendan]

I used to lose all wireless connectivity in my work apartment in PNG, eventually figured out it was the 2.4ghz AV sender one if the other guys had set up so he could watch TV in his room, switched it off, all good.

Any new gadgets in the house?

[wally01]

I used to lose all wireless connectivity in my work apartment in PNG, eventually figured out it was the 2.4ghz AV sender one if the other guys had set up so he could watch TV in his room, switched it off, all good.

Any new gadgets in the house?

Nothing new here all the same stuff ,the only thing new here is a carton of TEDS in the fridge .
Just damn strange has been working fine for a bloody long time and the this ,oh well it's all working now..

[steve_t]

Yep. Probably was just some interference from outside. If it happens again, consider running a scanner to check what channels nearby routers are on. My wifi used to drop out all the time and I found my new neighbours were using the same channel range as me. I changed my channels and no problems since

[Drizt]

Buy a Billion 5G router and I bet all will be fine

[wally01]

Yep. Probably was just some interference from outside. If it happens again, consider running a scanner to check what channels nearby routers are on. My wifi used to drop out all the time and I found my new neighbours were using the same channel range as me. I changed my channels and no problems since

I am on channel 6 there is one nearby on 6 ,4 others on 11 the one near me is not a strong signal is about 2 blocks away looking at it by GPS.

[steve_t]

I am on channel 6 there is one nearby on 6 ,4 others on 11 the one near me is not a strong signal is about 2 blocks away looking at it by GPS.

So nobody nearby is using channel 1? Maybe a good opportunity to have 1-5 all to yourself

[wally01]

So nobody nearby is using channel 1? Maybe a good opportunity to have 1-5 all to yourself

Went for a wander with my Tab to see who was around the nearest one on channel 1 would not be near enough to bother me ,i switched to 6 sometime back as i was having dropout probs originally i was on 1 might go back to it and see how we go ..
Thanks for the help..
Mind you i get better speed with my cable plugged in against wireless 10.90 M bits wireless 19.90 M bits Ethernet will play around for the nest few days and see what happens..

[dnos]

There's some cool freeware apps (for PC and mac) you can run to see what networks are around, and specifically what channel they are using.

I used to once as the in-laws were having massive network dramas with wifi and we found that everyone in the neighbourhood had the same routers running on the same channels, so we switched channels and its been gravy since

[macca_779]

I'm on channel 149. 5GHz 300Mbps FTW

[wally01]

I'm on channel 149. 5GHz 300Mbps FTW

Now that's not nice makes me look like i have dial up..

[macca_779]

Now that's not nice makes me look like i have dial up..

Net isn't anywhere near that fast anyway. So it's not a huge deal. Plus it only connects to the switch via 100Mbit. Why apple did that on the airport express I have no idea (extreme runs gigabit). So really the only time ill use the full 300 is if it was a perfect world (it isn't and sync speed is usually about 150Mbps) and it was wifi to wifi transfer.

I only have my portable devices on wifi anyway. Everything else is on gigabit ethernet throughout the house including my macbook which docks to a thinderbolt display on ethernet. Still cop the Internet bottleneck to the outside world. But moving media around the house via my NAS is bangin fast.

[team illucid]

Wait until you get WiFi ac to replace N. Like going from B to N.

[macca_779]

Wait until you get WiFi ac to replace N. Like going from B to N.

Ill be getting an ac AirPort Extreme when that happens. Will be good on the nbn one day when I can get that too (hopefully this year). Either way though I reckon they'll never hit 1Gbps. Realistically more like 500mbps