"kimiraikkonen" <kimiraikkonen85@gmail.com> hath wroth:

>I wanted to change my router's wireless channel number to avoid a
>possible signal interference resulting with strange freezes,

Is there any reason why you didn't bother supplying the manufacturer
and model number of your router?

>then i
>changed from 11 to 6. I changed successfully.
>
>However under advanced tab which is in my wireless adapter's driver
>page(device manager), IBSS channel number and WZC IBSS channel number
>are stayed at 11(they were default though).

There are at least 3 MAC addresses involved in your wireless router.
1. The MAC address of the WAN port. This can be changed.
2. The MAC addresses of the LAN/ethernet ports. These are fixed and
cannot be changed.
3. The MAC address of the wireless port. This is fixed and cannot be
changed.

When your unspecified wireless client connects to your unspecified
wireless router, the client will scan through all the available
channels trying to find the proper SSID. Therefore, after a channel
change, the client will show a new channel, but the same MAC address
(and the same SSID).

>However, with this settings i experienced strange freeze problem again
>while downloading(also i cannot reach to 192.168.1.1, but doing
>disable/enable or ''repair'' fixes this). Then i wanted to change
>channel number to 6 from driver page on my wi-fi adapter also. The
>computer locked and XP couldn't shut down, after restarting computer,
>the channel of wi-fi adapter(Broadcom BCM4318) is set to 6.

You cannot change channel on the Wi-Fi client. The client follows the
channel set by the wireless router. Change it only in the wireless
router and the client automatically follow.

Why do you associated the computer locking with wireless? There's
usually no connection unless the wireless drive is old or defective.
My guess is that the failure to shut down was caused by something
else.

>Now i am on channel 6 both for router and wi-fi adapter.
>
>The thing i'm surprised: Before setting channels 6 for BOTH
>devices(router and wi-fi adapter), Although my router is broadcasting
>wi-fi on channel 6, WHY was i connecting and surfing although my wi-fi
>adapter's channel settings were set to 11 before?

I have no idea. You might be surfing using the neighbors wireless
router. Try rebooting your client computer again to see if that
clears indications from before the change in channel. The only way
you can set the channel on the client is if you are in the ad-hoc
mode, which will NOT work with your wireless router, which requires
infrstructure mode.

>I hope you understood.

Only partly. The English is good enough but the technical description
is terrible. Try to clearly seperate when you are talking about the
router and when you are talking about your client adapter. It's also
necessary to know the details of your hardware in order to guess an
answer.

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