It does not matter about the make, its an excuse why its doing stuff that I
want to run past folk.
The controller device is wireless, and the folk looking after the boiler
are suggesting that the office wifi is causing the problem of it not keeping
in touch with the main boiler.
Seems a bit of a lame excuse to me. OK its not new, but the landlord seems
to me to be making excuses cos it will either cost him too much to fix it,
or they really have no idea why its losing its communications and then
theboiler reverts to a kind of safe default which is basically frost
prevention.

Brian

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Brian Gaff wrote

It does not matter about the make, its an excuse why its doing stuff that
I want to run past folk.

The controller device is wireless, and the folk looking after the boiler
are suggesting that the office wifi is causing the problem of it not
keeping in touch with the main boiler.

Seems a bit of a lame excuse to me. OK its not new, but the landlord seems
to me to be making excuses cos it will either cost him too much to fix it,
or they really have no idea why its losing its communications and then
theboiler reverts to a kind of safe default which is basically frost
prevention.

Or it may be true and the boiler controller is poorly designed
and can't handle lots of other stuff on that channel.

So you need to say what the make and model is so that a google
can be done to see if others are seeing the same problem. If they
aren't, then it is likely that someone is being fobbed off and that
may in fact be the landlord.

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:57:13 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

The controller device is wireless, and the folk looking after the boiler
are suggesting that the office wifi is causing the problem of it not keeping
in touch with the main boiler.

snip

I've certainly had that the other way round Brian, twice in fact where
some 'other' equipment using the general WiFi band was affecting WiFi
signals very badly (very restricted range). One was one of those TV
signal senders and another a TV surround sound system that had
wireless rear speakers.

Both were proved by using a little USB dongle I bought (called
'Wi-Spy' I think) that turned your PC / laptop into a narrow band
spectrum analyzer and that showed these signals walking all over the
WiFi channels. You can do it by switching off all other equipment but
that won't work if the offending devices is next door.

It was fun to show someone the WiFi band and then put a mug of water
in their microwave and they could tell me from the analysers when it
was on or off.

Cheers, T i m

p.s. It may have been an earlier version of these:

http://www.wi-spy.co.uk/index.php/products/wi-spy

On Saturday, 12 March 2016 07:57:19 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
The controller device is wireless, and the folk looking after the boiler
are suggesting that the office wifi is causing the problem of it not keeping
in touch with the main boiler.

Quite possibly.

I presume the batteries in the wireless controller have been checked/changed, if appliccable?

Owain

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 08:51:33 +0000, T i m wrote:

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:57:13 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

The controller device is wireless, and the folk looking after the
boiler
are suggesting that the office wifi is causing the problem of it not
keeping in touch with the main boiler.

snip

I've certainly had that the other way round Brian, twice in fact where
some 'other' equipment using the general WiFi band was affecting WiFi
signals very badly (very restricted range). One was one of those TV
signal senders and another a TV surround sound system that had wireless
rear speakers.

Both were proved by using a little USB dongle I bought (called 'Wi-Spy'
I think) that turned your PC / laptop into a narrow band spectrum
analyzer and that showed these signals walking all over the WiFi
channels. You can do it by switching off all other equipment but that
won't work if the offending devices is next door.

It was fun to show someone the WiFi band and then put a mug of water in
their microwave and they could tell me from the analysers when it was on
or off.

Cheers, T i m

p.s. It may have been an earlier version of these:

http://www.wi-spy.co.uk/index.php/products/wi-spy

Bloody Hell!!

Just moused over the prices!

£359 up to £784.

I liked the idea, but not that much.

Cheers

Dave R



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