Seem to be using more battery at home on WiFi than on 3g lately.

Does the channel number or channel congestion have an impact on battery use? WiFianalyzer says I'm on the best channel - 1

Channel congestion will obviously have an effect but try powering the phone down before rechecking as there may be an errant app.

Checked again, and I have 30 networks around. Another 3 on the same channel, and mostly all bloody BT networks.

I'm guessing the reason for their better than others coverage is flooding the network channels so people go back to cables!

If your phone supports the 5GHZ wireless band, then get yourself a dual band wireless router and enable the 5GHZ band. There is a lot less congestion on that frequency at the moment, but that is sure to change as more devices and routers come on stream that support it.

Not sure the livebox mini is dual channel. Cant see such an option in admin settings.

Not sure that one is either, Belkin sell a few now and I know that all Apple Airports support dual band. There are more, but its quiet a new thing though.

Checked again, and I have 30 networks around. Another 3 on the same channel, and mostly all bloody BT networks.

I'm guessing the reason for their better than others coverage is flooding the network channels so people go back to cables!

They do seem to grab all the main channels and broadcast very strongly on there. I almost wonder if they are below the 5db gain limit

The Desire doesn't have a 5GHz radio, it's 2.4GHz only. I think you're always going to have problems with 30 networks around you, that's insanely busy for a standard that only has 13 channels and most of them overlap (you can only have 3 802.11b/802.11g networks in an area and keep them totally separate, after that there's always going to be channel sharing and overlap, it's unavoidable).

Also don't forget that the 2.4GHz band is also used by other devices, so there's probably several sets of DECT cordless phones that could possibly be in range and interfering, microwaves, etc.

Edited 25 August, 201114 yr by gavinchappell

Don't forget bluetooth too

Good point

If your phone supports the 5GHZ wireless band, then get yourself a dual band wireless router and enable the 5GHZ band. There is a lot less congestion on that frequency at the moment, but that is sure to change as more devices and routers come on stream that support it.

Is the Sky N router dual band?

Wow that's busy!

We have two other networks show up at ours.

Luckily we have elderly neighbours or chav's living on JSA around us.

Phil

Gets worse.

Seems since sky rolled out LLU another 10 have appeared!

So far, seems to be just me on ch1. Every other channel gets 2 out of 10 stars on WiFi analyzer!

Just hope no one decides to use ch1 :(

Is the Sky N router dual band?

I'm not sure if the new Sky router is but the Desire doesn't support N.