Quick Router/Networking question

[billsfan89]

OK I don't know if anyone here can help me I access the internet on my laptop via a Linksys router. Now most of the time my connection is just fine. But at night I tend to have more issues regarding a slower connection. So I checked to see if there was any other network interfering or some other form of interference (Walkie talkies, wireless phones, ect) but there wasn't anything wrong or different.

 

Now I began to notice that my connection was giving off 2 signals all of the sudden. The connection I usually access goes under Linksys and I noticed that there was another connection called Linksys 2. Both have the same signal strength most of the time. Is this the same signal is my router splitting the signal for some reason? What can I do to merge these signals or insure signal strength?

 

If you guys can't help me out its cool just let me know if anyone has encountered a similar situation and if there is anything I can do.

[Alaska Darin]

OK I don't know if anyone here can help me I access the internet on my laptop via a Linksys router. Now most of the time my connection is just fine. But at night I tend to have more issues regarding a slower connection. So I checked to see if there was any other network interfering or some other form of interference (Walkie talkies, wireless phones, ect) but there wasn't anything wrong or different.

 

Now I began to notice that my connection was giving off 2 signals all of the sudden. The connection I usually access goes under Linksys and I noticed that there was another connection called Linksys 2. Both have the same signal strength most of the time. Is this the same signal is my router splitting the signal for some reason? What can I do to merge these signals or insure signal strength?

 

If you guys can't help me out its cool just let me know if anyone has encountered a similar situation and if there is anything I can do.

You have a neighbor?

[Corp000085]

First of all, saying that you connect under "linksys" is a dead giveaway that your router is set to factory settings, which are totally unsecured by design. Look on the bottom of your router and find the model number and version. It will be labelled there. Next, look up information on the internet as to how to secure your router. Since your router has factory settings, I'll assume that you're new at this... You'll want to print a hard copy of any how-to list from the internet and make all changes to the router from a computer that's plugged into one of the ethernet jacks on the back.

 

Securing your router will also help you isolate your problem. Once its secured, you won't use "linksys" as your ssid, so you'll be able to isolate if it has 2 signals as you have mentioned. Also, once your comfortable securing it down, you'll be comfortable messing with the wifi settings to possibly increase your wifi signal, change the channel, etc. After you're all done with that, you can really experiment by uploading DD-WRT or tomato on the thing since the stock linksys firmware blows.

 

One last note, before you make any changes, from that wired connection, go to the linksys website and download the latest firmware update to the router and put it on there. You can check your version info from the web interface.

 

As Darin has mentioned though, you've got about a 99.999% of having a neighbor with an unsecured linksys router. Get that fixed before his teenage son downloads child pornography using your connection, because when the feds come knockin, they'll bang on your door, not his.

[billsfan89]

You have a neighbor?

 

Yeah but his signal isn't the one I am getting. I asked him what he had his set under and it didn't come up. And he doesn't have a teenage son if he wants he has his own connection and his son is 4.