![]() ![]() Others provide an absolute setting matching to the radio’s milliwatt output, commonly called simply mW (not dBm), with whatever range is possible for the hardware, such as0-200 mW. Others have a relative power option, allowing you to alter transmit power from 0% to 100%. Some only have three options: low, medium, and high. Depending on the brand and type, it might be named Transmit Power, Transmit Power Control, Tx Power, or something similar. Manufacturers differ in how transmit power is displayed and adjusted. If your router supports transmit power changes, you may increase the power output by turning the volume up or down on the setup panel. Similarly to how sound energy is measured in decibels (dB), Wi-Fi radio energy is measured in decibel milliwatts (dBm). The transmit power of your Wi-Fi router is analogous to the volume knob on a stereo. While there is surely a full PhD degree and then some worth of material regarding radio transmission power and all that goes with it to provide, in order to get to the relevant day-to-day things, we’ll keep it brief here. Related: Why Does Rebooting Your Router Solve So Many Issues? (and Why You Have to Wait 10 Seconds) It is "unlicensed" so there are no rules on sharing it your neighbor can use all he wants just like you can.If you’re having trouble getting adequate Wi-Fi coverage in your house, it may seem logical to increase the transmit power of your Wi-Fi router. Now if 1000mw is the legal allowed transmit level then there is nothing you can do. You would need to have fairly fancy equipment to really prove they are transmitting a levels that are not legal. I know it is pretty much a waste of time to report things to the FCC. Still if you live in a country where the limit is 100mw and your neighbor really has a device that puts out 1000mw you can only report them. You can get lots of illegal stuff out of china. ![]() I know it is technically illegal to import a device that violates the local laws but it is pretty easy to buy from a foreign country including china directly. I don't know how they now restrict routers by country. The radio chip manufacture worked with the FCC to prevent this. You used to be able to set yourself to russia so you could use illegal values and use channels on the 5g band that are not allowed. The FCC really cracked down on equipment a few years back. The 20db which is a 100mw is for countries covered by the CE but I thought it was ETSI for the EU. ![]() So 30db or 1000mw is the legal maximum power in the USA and many other countries. I would be more inclined to think it is mistake in their documentation rather than be the only router that I can find that does not support the FCC values. When I went to look through the specs the c60 is the only one I can find in their whole list that only has a output power listed for CE and not both CE and FCC. That is kinda strange I though every manufacture transmitted near the legal maximum which is different by country. I haven't upgraded my WiFi adapters to 5 GHz AC yet, but is there a way to stop this interference at 2.4 GHz itself? Because our phones and smart TVs still operate at 2.4 GHz. Is there a way out of this, except telling the neighbour to fix a channel? She seems a recluse and has never talked to anyone in the locality ever since she moved in, and I am not comfortable asking about tweaking her router. Once the interference starts, I can't even manually change my router's channel because the router page itself takes a long time to load. Once I change my channel, my network works fine, until that effing router again changes its channel with planned precision to overwhelm my network. I can't even open my router's page without waiting a few minutes to load the page. ![]() Neighbour's stupid router changes channels often, and often I find my own network down. All over my house, my own network's signal varies, but the neighbour's signal is effing strong and full all around my house and in the streets too. Now, I invested in a new router a few days ago - TP Link Archer C60, which is a normal 100 mW power one. Our old neighbour moved out and the new neighbour has installed a high power WiFi router (probably the 1000 mW TP link one with 9 dBi antennas.) As if the 10x power atrocity wasn't enough, the bandwidth has been set to 40 MHz. ![]()
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