Routers, please keep your distance!!

[Yorkie]

It took me months to discover the cause of network instability which was making my AVR unusable. Members of this group tried to help, and those of another forum too. Finally, Marantz told me to move my router away from my TV box, even though it was the AVR which appeared to have the problem. With several metres between the router and both the TV box and the AVR, all was sweetness and light. From a network which fell over every day and took the AVR's network settings down with it to a perfectly behaved system.

 

I'm sharing this because I haven't seen anything written on this, so if you're having a stability problem, here's a possible cause.

 

Louise

[jhwalker]

It took me months to discover the cause of network instability which was making my AVR unusable. Members of this group tried to help, and those of another forum too. Finally, Marantz told me to move my router away from my TV box, even though it was the AVR which appeared to have the problem. With several metres between the router and both the TV box and the AVR, all was sweetness and light. From a network which fell over every day and took the AVR's network settings down with it to a perfectly behaved system.

 

I'm sharing this because I haven't seen anything written on this, so if you're having a stability problem, here's a possible cause.

 

Louise

 

Thank you for sharing - it's amazing how it's sometimes the simple things that cause the most intractable problems

 

We have a set of wireless Sennheiser headphones we use for late-night TV watching. Every few weeks, they'd start "acting up"; i.e., sound would cut in and out for no apparent reason. I always wound up "rebooting" them to solve the problem, always temporarily, for the issue would inevitably return within a few weeks

 

I finally figured out what was happening - the headphones were using almost the same 2.4GHz band as my WiFi router, and every once in a while, they'd choose a channel that overlapped! Given I have no other 2.4GHz wireless devices in the house, I simply disabled that band on my WiFi router and, "Bingo!" - no more dropouts.

[AudioDoctor]

Just a few days ago I had this fun little adventure...

 

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/dont-set-your-cell-phone-down-your-integrated-31868/

[botrytis]

I try to keep things as separated as possible. EM emissions can wreak havoc in many places.