I use clearwire and my antenna is picking up a TREMENDOUS amount of electromagnetic interference in my home. I've moved the antenna as far as possible from ALL other electrical appliances and equipment (opposite side of room...15ft from the closest monitor) and it makes no change. I know that's one issue...the clearwire ppl say there may be an issue on there end as well because of how my trace looked:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert www.yahoo.com
Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [209.191.93.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 2148 ms 2187 ms 2621 ms 75-94-224-1.lub.clearwire-dns.net [75.94.224.1]
3 2253 ms 1867 ms 1985 ms 10.41.215.37
4 1971 ms 1964 ms 2054 ms 64.13.47.142
5 2276 ms 2566 ms 2498 ms 64.13.47.137
6 2136 ms 2144 ms 1949 ms ge-6-20.car2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.169.5]
7 1829 ms 1603 ms 1630 ms ae-11-69.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.19.3]
8 1687 ms 1769 ms 1744 ms YAHOO-INC.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.79.180.2]
9 1970 ms 2055 ms 1871 ms ae1-p120.msr1.mud.yahoo.com [216.115.104.81]
10 2005 ms 2068 ms 1944 ms te-8-1.bas-c1.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.193.5]
11 1998 ms 1990 ms 1922 ms f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.93.52]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>
My issues started when we moved into this house toward the end of May and they say the EMI thing started the DAY I moved our network here. I'm pretty sure it's the biggest issue. So I wondering if there's a way to shield an antenna from outside interference?
Really can't shield an antenna from electromagnetic interference. You want the antenna to receive electromagnetic signals of a certain frequency (the ones you want) and reject all others. The antenna works with the cable and the radio in the box (I'm assuming they give you a box that you plug into your computer's ethernet port) to receive and amplify the signals you want and reject what you don't want. I would suggest you check your cables very carefully. Could have a broken shield or wire somewhere. If there is interference at the frequency of Clearwire's own network, you can't fix it with your antenna (unless you can use a directional antenna to aim toward the Clearwire transmitter.) The frequency we are talking about here I believe is 2.5GHz. Anything in or near the house with that frequency?
The ping times in the trace route are quite long. Looks like they have issues there for sure.
yeah I really didn't know how the antenna worked but after some research I learned that shielding it is hopeless. We may be screwed and have to ditch the contract and go with cable or something. We also have issues with our Dish Network receiver here...lots of "lost signal" bs which really pissed us off tonight when we missed the last 10 minutes of the secret life of an american teenager. I think it's linked.
We have nothing in this house that wasn't in the last house. I went out and looked around and I can see the clearwire tower from my back yard. I can't see anything other towers or anything. I' going to ask around my neighborhood and see if anyone else here uses clearwire and see if they have issues.
Ouch those pings are somewhatbad,id raise hell with the provider, yove done all you can, on your end
how about this one...
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>tracert www.yahoo.com
Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [209.191.93.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 3192 ms 3259 ms 3127 ms 75-94-224-1.lub.clearwire-dns.net [75.94.224.1]
3 2787 ms 2739 ms 2996 ms 10.41.215.37
4 3147 ms 3003 ms 3073 ms 64.13.47.142
5 2862 ms 2781 ms 2719 ms 64.13.47.137
6 2877 ms 2525 ms 2664 ms ge-6-20.car2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.169.5]
7 2689 ms 3044 ms 3016 ms ae-11-69.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.19.3]
8 2850 ms 2505 ms 2269 ms YAHOO-INC.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.79.180.2]
9 2476 ms 2455 ms 2616 ms ae1-p130.msr2.mud.yahoo.com [216.115.104.85]
10 2793 ms 2815 ms 3116 ms te-8-1.bas-c1.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.193.5]
11 3029 ms 2747 ms 2539 ms f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.93.52]
Trace complete.
C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>
idiot clearwire shaZam!...
Do you have any way to access the back end of your wirless internet appliance to have a look at the signal strength? Might have a signal problem, as ping times will go down the tubes with a degredation in the signal to noise ratio. Either noise goes up, or signal goes down. Either way equals the same problem. Just because you can see the tower doesn't mean you can "hear" the tower if you have a faulty component or four.
Any power lines, industry, large electric motors, or FM transmitters close to you?
What is the distance to the tower?
mak if that is your ip, HIDE IT :thumb: