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Originally Posted by oliver1948uk
It could be as innocent as the person next door has a wireless router using the same channel as GratuitousViolet but only turns it on when required, usually during the times stated in the first post.
A change of channel would soon check this out.
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That was my first thought. The wireless channels are very heavily loaded these days with practically every house having Internet and most being none technical prefer wireless and don't want to be bothered running wires erverywhere. .
Try downloading (for free) Xirrus WiFi inspector.
http://www.xirrus.com/library/downlo...Setup1.0.1.exe
It will show your wireless neighbours and the channel they are using. Check at these busy periods to see who pops up and move channel away from them. There are 13 in total (I think).
If as you say you are not familiar with wireless, then I can guess you took it out of the box and it worked. As a result you may have:
1) No encryption switched on.
2) Have left it (like many others) on the default channels of 13 for most routers - hence you are literally not alone on channel 13.
Hope that is some help.
WTP