I'm trying to figure out what's been going on during the past week with my wireless streaming. Here's some background:
Since Monday, I'd been having problems with any sort of wireless video streaming, no matter what the source of the stream was. I also had a good deal of wireless instability, with a couple of fixed devices connected via 5GHz losing their connections spontaneously throughout the day.
I have a lot of wireless interference in my neighborhood, but nobody (nobody I can see, at least) is on the same channels as me on 5GHz. The problem seems to get worse at night, and my wired connections are unaffected by the problem. I have more than enough bandwidth (189GB/s down, 24GB/s up) to do multiple streams, but doing even 2 streams has been near impossible.
Because everything seems to break and other devices lose their connections when I stream, I suspected that my problem could be power-related, theorizing that the power used by the router's wireless chips increases during streaming. Even though my signals were a bit low (RSSI -75 dB or so), I turned down the power on all 3 radios from 100% power to 85% power. My streaming problems completely vanished. 5GHz Connections stopped dropping. Everything is faster as well.
Why did this work? I figure either
a) my lowered power requirements were just enough to make a near failing power supply avoid being overloaded
or
b) that my wireless signal reach was no longer reaching whomever has been trying to hack wirelessly into it.
I'm leaning towards option "b" as my next door neighbor (or a virus on his computer) has tried to hack me before.
Anyone have any ideas how I could prove/disprove either of the two theories, without being forced to purchase a new power supply?
Since Monday, I'd been having problems with any sort of wireless video streaming, no matter what the source of the stream was. I also had a good deal of wireless instability, with a couple of fixed devices connected via 5GHz losing their connections spontaneously throughout the day.
I have a lot of wireless interference in my neighborhood, but nobody (nobody I can see, at least) is on the same channels as me on 5GHz. The problem seems to get worse at night, and my wired connections are unaffected by the problem. I have more than enough bandwidth (189GB/s down, 24GB/s up) to do multiple streams, but doing even 2 streams has been near impossible.
Because everything seems to break and other devices lose their connections when I stream, I suspected that my problem could be power-related, theorizing that the power used by the router's wireless chips increases during streaming. Even though my signals were a bit low (RSSI -75 dB or so), I turned down the power on all 3 radios from 100% power to 85% power. My streaming problems completely vanished. 5GHz Connections stopped dropping. Everything is faster as well.
Why did this work? I figure either
a) my lowered power requirements were just enough to make a near failing power supply avoid being overloaded
or
b) that my wireless signal reach was no longer reaching whomever has been trying to hack wirelessly into it.
I'm leaning towards option "b" as my next door neighbor (or a virus on his computer) has tried to hack me before.
Anyone have any ideas how I could prove/disprove either of the two theories, without being forced to purchase a new power supply?
