BEM, MIB . . . or WLAN?

[dr_kromm]

Either the Aliens are trying to send me messages over my stereo, my wife's computer speakers, and occasionally the little iPod speakers on my elliptical machine . . . or the Secret Agents are beaming coded signals from that van out front, but my Treadstone conditioning has failed. Or maybe -- I know, this sounds crazy -- all of these devices are somehow picking up garbage from my wireless network.

Has anybody ever heard of an 802.11g access point causing audible artifacts on random speakers around the house? I swear, it's freaky.

And if it isn't that . . .

Comments

[roguebfl.livejournal.com]

Try changing the channel that your g-LAN is using.

I had similar problems with my n-LAN and our microwaves (would loos connected ever time we nuked something) changed the channel changes where in the band you are using.

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice! Once I've replaced my old PC with one that works, and have fewer variables in the equation, I will try this. The sounds are something we noticed about five times in three months, so resolving the matter will be a bit of a long-term experiment. Eliminating my potentially noisy and scary PC first would be wise, though.

Cheers!

[coyote6.livejournal.com]

IIRC, every cell phone I've owned has induced noise in computer speakers sometimes -- but never the wireless network (and the router is a foot from my dinky speakers).

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that could also be to blame. My wife docks our iPhone about 10cm from her speakers, and we often dock our iPhone on our stereo to use it as an iPod. Unfortunately, neither of us recalls whether it was docked nearby when we heard the weird noises. And of course the iPhone is part of the WLAN, so it isn't necessarily a separate problem.