Networks isolating two 2.4GHZ band wireless devices?

at the coffee house i work at we have free wireless internet, provided by a 2.4Ghz linksys AP.

we have had some problems with money going missing so the owners decided to install a small wirless video camara.

well im the tech guy there so anything that goes wrong with anything they ask me to fix (no i dont get paid more for that)

well it turns out that the video camara signal is washing out the wifi signal. the wifi however does introduce a good deal of fuzz into the picture of the camara.

so we can use one or the other but not both.

I was wondering if there is anyway to isolate the two devices so we can use both? or are we stuck witha wifi point and a useless camara, and need to get a different wireless camara?

 

Sticking a boatload of concrete between the two will isolate the signals, but I suspect that might have an adverse effect on the coffee house

No other way AFAIK to isolate the signals - a wired camera would probably be the cheapest way out of this one.

 

ok i was affraid that was going to be the answer.

thanks anyway

 

you could try changing the wireless channel, I've read somewhere that this "can" sort out the problem with interferance from cordless phones on 2.4Gig

 

we are currently running on chan. 6 would you recomend 11?

if not what would you recomend?

 

I have a similar problem with a wireless video sender and my wireless cards. Setting one device to be the lowest availible channel and the other on the highest [say 1 and 11 as these channels do not overlap] cuts out most of the interference but not all. Most of the channels in wireless all have some overlap with their neighbours so doing this keeps them as far apart as possible.

You could get an access point that uses 802.11a as this uses the 5 GHz band and so wouldn't interfere but this would mean different network cards being required or you could try and get a camera that uses a different band.

Alternatively you could install a wireless webcam type camera such as this one that actually uses the wireless network to transmit the video via IP and such would be working with, and not against, the wireless lan.

J

 

Just FYI - channels 1, 6, and 11 don't overlap each other. The channels between these do overlap, so you could try channel 1 and 11 just in case.

Cheers
Buzzy

 

The best way, if possible, would be to change the wireless channel of the camera. So that the wireless connection remains the same.