I’m in London today, first thing I did was check what channel our wireless network was using… it was set to 11. Ever since we moved offices the reception here has been awful, and I couldn’t figure out why.

Yesterday I suddenly thought, what if all the other wireless networks we’re picking up are using channel 11 too? So I looked on the web to see if changing the channel can actually have any downsides… as long as you stick to 1, 6 or 11 you should be fine, as they don’t overlap.

So I changed the channel on the Access Point to 1 and clicked Save. Almost immediately the network was discovered by my dad’s tablet PC and it said FULL STRENGTH!

Finally, that problem is solved!