2.4Ghz Sucks
by Kevin on Friday, September 7 at 12:24 AM GMT-4
Can we PLEASE have a new frequency range for consumer electronics? Everything now seems to run on 2.4Ghz, which is making it interesting to get everything working together.
We got a very snazzy Angel Care baby monitor from my Mom. It's pretty neat in the fact that it actually has a sensor pad that detects the movements of the baby. You can have it 'tick' every time the baby moves or just alert you if there has been no movement in a while.
The big problem is, the fancier this thing is, the more it is transmitting and the more sensitive it is to interference. Not only was I getting noise on the monitor, but my pings from laptop to the router was going from 1ms to 100ms+ when transmitting sound. Not good.
We got a very snazzy Angel Care baby monitor from my Mom. It's pretty neat in the fact that it actually has a sensor pad that detects the movements of the baby. You can have it 'tick' every time the baby moves or just alert you if there has been no movement in a while.
The big problem is, the fancier this thing is, the more it is transmitting and the more sensitive it is to interference. Not only was I getting noise on the monitor, but my pings from laptop to the router was going from 1ms to 100ms+ when transmitting sound. Not good.
Luckily, DD-WRT has a lot of options for boosting transmission power and channel options. It appears that if you randomly choose channels and fiddle with the transmission power in a completely unscientific manner, you eventually can find something that manages to allow everything to work together.
Time for some new frequencies allowed for this sort of gear.
Time for some new frequencies allowed for this sort of gear.
