Dealing with wireless interference from cellphones

[John Sabath]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

Of, if you have another router than's capable of using the 5ghz band, you can plug that into the Classmate. A nicer router will probably get better reception than the Classmate's card, anyways.

That's what I was thinking about doing; just rigging up a tower similar to what is used at competition. We should have a few spare routers laying around.

[FrankJ]

As others have said. Use the 5g band. Use an encrypted SSID to keep the curious from connecting. Remember that you will have to set one of your routers to bridge mode (assuming your computer doesn't have a 5g radio).

We use the one of the old brown bridges from breakaway plugged into the lap top with the AP on the robot.

[DCA Fan]

I've seen this problem at demos and off-seasons. Yes, you definitely need to switch over to the 5ghz band, it'll be a lot less crowded. At 2.4ghz you have to contend with most school wifi, almost all cell phone mobile hotspots.

[Bryce Paputa]

We had this issue with our first pitch at Comerica Park, we ended up just using an ethernet tether.