Wireless Internet Affecting Garage Door?
 

I know this is a retarded question. My garage door opener has been very flakey and I realized that it started fucking up when I got my wireless Linksys. I tried the door a few times with the router turned off but my results are inconsistent plus I know that at least two of my neighbors have wireless connections also.

Pinging garage.door with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from garage.door: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from garage.door: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from garage.door: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from garage.door: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for garage.door:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0%
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

heheh

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

dude, now my garage door is opening uncontrolably! ;)


I did say it was a retarded question!

Take the plug out of the wall

no Vegas for MissEve?

Garage door openers are usually at a much lower frequency, like 304MHz or 473MHz... 802.11b is up around 2,400MHz. It's probably just a coincidence, maybe interference from something else nearby?

(When I first got my Duron 1.2 I ran it with both side panels removed, and I couldn't work out why my new mobile phone wasn't working properly... ;) )

Maybe it's the same demon that keeps turing on my bedroom light in the middle of the night. grrrrrr.

You might check the grounding for your garage door opening. It might be the frequency it's on happens to be a harmonic of the Lan. Might talk to the manufacturer also. If it's older you might need a newer one. If it's newer you might could change the frequency it's operating on.

hahah, yeah when i was younger a friend and i had found out that our garage door opener would open the neighbors garage. we must have sat around all day and opened and closed their garage.... they would come outside and watch it open and close, they could not figure it out. it was way to funny.

That was you????

HILARIOUS:1orglaugh

Most garage door openers are at 433Mhz the lowest of
the ISM bands.

When did this start? Around christmas ...try finding
the neighbourhood kid that is running a cheap Radio
Shack RC car around your house and buy him a GOOD
one to play with.

I had a similar problem with my on going project of
a 903Mhz industrial intercom system. Last week I was
completely over powered by 4 teenage girls having
a phone converstation. So out the door with the wife
and couple of handhelds for a triangulation. The family
was foriegn and they had brought a cordless phone
back on their last visit to the homeland. A phone that
wasn't compliant with title 47 part 15 (this sucker was
putting out 4W when it should have been 100mW).
I bought them a nice new 2.4Ghz phone, took their
non-compliant away from them, stripped it and put
the kick ass linear amp into my intercom basestation.:thumbsup

PK said "might" five times in her post.

*BOP*