Router/thermostat interference?

Can you whip the battery out of the thermostat and see if that helps?

Also, can you borrow a PC with WiFi and see what channels are in use around you? Try to be 3 channels different with yours.

Also, some routers have an "if you see interference, automatically change channel" feature and this can give the same symptoms. I rely on a manual check and lock down my channel otherwise SWMBO complains when US radio (she's a yank) drops out during her favourite streamed radio show.

Paul DS.

Thanks. I'll try pulling the battery next time I'm up. A longer term solution might be to just replace the stat with a ordinary bi-metal stat. My mother neither wants nor needs a digital stat, wireless or otherwise.

She like a big dial that she can twist and see what it's set to.

What's the easiest (preferably free) software to use to scan for other wi-fi network channels in use? What's the optimum channel separation?

Tim

Get an old one on ebay and stick it to the wall. Don't connect it to anything ;-)

Nah. She uses it to turn the heating on and off when she feels like it. Even timers are a bit too much for her. ;-)

Tim

Do they? All the ones I've seen have used 432 - 434 or 868MHz

Wifi can also be blocked by a microwave oven (non leaky, fully functional)

MBQ

Some of the more modern room stat thingies do use the same band as I believe some systems allow you to control the thing from the network. Blimey, I dread the day when the fact that the toaster has popped up flashes a message on the screen!

Brian

Been done already

If you have an Android smartphone there are several free apps that you can download that will turn your phone into a wi-fi sensor and show their signal strengths and SSIDs on the screen.

That might give you some pointers.

When I read that statement, I checked my own (Honeywell) and the spec says 868MHz. If the OP's is a Drayton (as I read in a search result), it will operate on 433MHz. Neither should interfere with Wi-Fi at 2.4GHz.

After complaints from a user in my own Mum's house, I took my laptop to the seat outside the front door and found 17 networks - this in a low density area with a lot of elderly neighbours. If you let your signal level drop, it's likely to be swamped by low-level noise from other users, especially in a tenement where routers may be only a few metres apart.

Fundamentally wireless technology is doomed, simply because everybody wants it. Domestic powerline networking might well go the same way.

The solution is to use cat5 cable.

Pity about all those people who bought hand-held devices lacking an RJ45 connector ...!

I cant even get wifi from this office here to the kitchen about 6m line of sight - if there was a line of sight,..too much foil backed plasterboard in the way..

Ne[hew has been and gibe and parked his car near the oil tank. Bang went the fuel gauge signal as well,.