HELP wifi connection drops after every 4 minutes TRY THIS

Q:I have a laptop and a desktop connected to wireless by thomson tcw710 gateway

the wifi connection drops after every 4 minutes saying two or more wireless ntoworks available even i have put mynetwork on the preferred list

A: Two possible culprits: wireless phones and neighboring wifi APs/routers.
Changing the channel on your router might help. Moving the router or using directional antennas might help, too

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A:Some good suggestions have been posted. If the outage occurs every 4 minutes it seems too regular to be something random like a cordless phone. What you really need to do is do a site survey. Unfortunately, most site survey is done with a 802.11 client so other signals like cordless phones, microwaves, and other transmitting devices don't get picked up. Nevertheless, at least see if there is another powerful wifi signal nearby. Then you can play with you channel selection to move to a different channel.

You can also try a directional antenna. My recommendation would be a panel or a grid, they're ugly but they have high gain. The high gain will give you a narrower beam which could also help isolate interference.

Sometimes the noise figure in the environment may just be too high. Moving to a higher frequency, say 5Ghz could move you out of the interfering band.