How Do I Block My Neighbors' APs?

[Mike_F]

Hi all,

I hope someone can help me with my issue.

I live in an apartment building in Brooklyn. My living room balcony overlooks 3 other buildings within the same amount of blocks. A lot of people in this neighborhood have wireless routers of different flavors (I checked with Kismet and Airsnort and found 20+ APs within 5 minutes). It's like a hackers' dream: Most of these APs are set with their default settings.

What I would like to do is find a way to block these signals from entering my house, causing my new Panasonic 2.4Ghz cordless phones to freak every 5 minutes and change channels. I called Panasonic, and they have no idea how to fix it.

I heard something in passing about clear chemicals that, when applied to your window, will bounce 802.11 signals. Is this true? I don't want to buy new cordless phones, and the signals do come from my balcony.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[spiderbite]

The power settings on your neighbors' AP's are ususally full bore and can not be turned down.


The immediate solution would be new cordless phones (900MHz)

However, I have seen window tinting that will completely kill a signal from an AP.


If you find it, let me know what it is so I can buy stock...

[C_Burns]

Been there done that. I don't know about the clear chemical or tinting but for the money you'll probably have to pay out for that, just go buy a 900 mhz or 5.8 ghz phone. That should solve your problem.

[spiderbite]

No no... I want to slap on huge multistory buildings and sell it as a security device.

Nothing in - Nothing out...

We'd be richhhhhh......