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Something at work has been bothering me for the past few days, and I can only think of a few things that might be the problem...

I work at a restaurant part time on weekends as a chef. We're still relatively in the slow season, as it hasn't gotten cold enough for the ski slopes to open up again and bring our usual influx of customers. To that end, I generally try to entertain myself from boredom at work. Luckily, I have a laptop, and our restaurant supplies free wireless to our customers.

Yet the restaurant isn't the only company in the building. We have a gift shop in the back, and a lawyer in the back. Recently, one of them installed wireless security cameras in their area of the building.

Around that time, wireless networking stopped working at the restaurant, and it's been really bugging everyone who relies on the connection to entertain themselves while we're having a slow day, or the customers who bring in their own laptops to use it.

Both the router and security cameras uses the 2.4 Ghz frequency, and no matter what channel I set the router to, I can never manage to get a wireless signal.

I'm not about to tell the person who installed the security cameras to remove them, but the customers are starting to really complain about the problem. I'm thinking about just having the manager purchase another wireless router, one that, if possible, can use a frequency other than 2.4. Your thoughts and suggestions?

Take a look at the security camera options, on whatever computer they are on, see if you can change the frequency.

Otherwise, buy a 802.11a router, they transmit at 5Ghz.

See if you can get the Security Camera people to switch their broadcasting to a single channel at one end of the spectrum (ie, 1, or 13), then put yours on the opposite end.

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I find though Microwaves cause radio interference. I've also seen interference from XBox 360 WiFi remote and EPOS.

This dish should do it, might be close call though:

Yeah, I had a video sender that cocked up my WiFi. I found when set to 802.11b everything worked fine, but when using 802.11g then depending on the channels used by router/video sender I just couldn't get either 802.11b or 802.11g devices to work. In the end found a channel combo that allowed b and g to work at the same time, but at a lower performance rate, plus the image from the video sender was then a bit naff.

Tried a couple of other routers and video senders without perfect results before finally chucked it all in and got Sky MultiRoom. Suppose I could have waited until all my devices got to 802.11g but then I would probably have died first. Plus my DS wouldn't work. Typical.

Cheers