On Mar 30, 7:33 pm, Jeff Liebermann <j...@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
wrote:
> "kimiraikkonen" <kimiraikkone...@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.
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann j...@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
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Dear Jeff, i gave the needed technical informations, eventhough you do
not need i want to give some info,
My router is US Robotics 9109 MaxG ADSL2+ router.
Why do you talk about MAC address? I don't have about MAC address and
i know they cannot be changed as they're off-topic for me. I had
strange freezes about ''wireless'' , my problem is: While surfing or
downloading, data transfer stops and i cannot receive or send packets,
wi-fi icon which is on the taskbar stops lighting as it should
indicate data transfer, but data transfer stops, FREEZES. Also i
cannot reach to 192.168.1.1(my router) until i click ''repair'' or
disable/enable of my wireless adapter(Broadcom BCM4318 driver
3.100.46.0) without touching my router.
After having this kind of problem, i researched and got some answers
about requirement of a channel change.
Then i went to web user interface of my router and changed channel to
6 from 11. But also there are wi-fi channel number(client)s as you
know which are in the ''device manager'' with ''advanced'' tab.
Look at:
http://www.linksysinfo.org/images/Co...m/broadcom.png
1st question: There 2 setting field related to channels, they are:
IBSS channel number and WZC IBSS channel number. Should i also change
them to channel 6??? Although they are stayed at channel 11, i was
able to surf, although router's channel number has been set to 6
already. Indeed, only changing router channel to 6 did not help, i
experienced freeze(data transfer stops) problem again :(
2nd question: As i am not using Ad hoc(computer-to-computer), these
IBSS channel numbers are wi-fi adapter driver channel settings are
needless for me? (I'm connecting the net wirelessly through my router
(ADSL) ).
Also, as i am carefull, i do not use neighbours wireless networks,
because i always check SSID name which i am surfing through.
Freeze problem is about wireless connection , not computer freeze.
As i am new to wireless i supposed that wireless channel changes
should be made both for router and wi-fi adapter? What is the correct?
Thank you...