I remember someone in the Uni hostel having a similar problem.
All they could do was change the jumpiness in their device. It worked though.

Always love to see others making nice house-wide setups.

Maybe someone else griefing because I downvoted some comment of theirs?
Maybe they have Voter ID turned ON, on their server

You just went over 9000% instead!

fancy ASUS router doesn’t have any way

Maybe it’s just the ATPC, that’s why they thought they didn’t need to add the setting.
Mine is a pretty old, cheap 2.4GHz only model from the days when 5GHz had just entered the market.

Sha-ring is Ca-ring

Well, now you do!
I’ll consider myself having done a good deed today :P

I would assume yours does have ATPC, specially if it is an 802.11ac or later standards compliant.

I don’t have much space I roam around in and there’s mobile internet for the mobile anyway.

It was completely unusable. Everyone was jamming everyone else.

The companies deserve all the flak they get in this case. They know it is congested because they are the ones who did it, but don’t care to think about it.

The least they could do is to let the user change the settings, but “oooh nooo PICNIC!”
Ideally they should use a WiFi analyser while setting up the device and if there are too many APs of their own company, send a report to their nearby office so that it can be rectified.

I don’t downvote my comments.

Unless someone proves my comment to be a bad one in a reply and I consider my comment to have been wrong. (That happened once on Reddit)

I remove the upvote so that when I open up my history, I don’t feel weird with everything being blue. <- also, you would probably find my second reason in a previous comment somewhere else

just to power through the interference from other apartments

Yeah, it would have helped for your neighbours to have reduced their power a bit.

I just keep it at the lowest power (20%) and am right now getting > -50dB (5 bars).
Of course, if you are doing it for the efficiency, you will also need to make sure that your receiver is not having a hard time with the low transmit power.

So, not caring, definitely works.

Yes!

The one I bought, doesn’t overheat even at 100%, but the ISP one used to overheat even with the WiFi off.

On the other hand, I recently tried connecting my router directly to the ISPs network (trying to lose the NAT) and it was hanging every few minutes. I was running Wireshark and unable to configure it to get internet access.

I would consider the main reason for overheating to be internet traffic, but in some models, the WiFi makes the difference to.

I’m pretty sure none of my neighbours is techy enough to even know about WiFi Analyser.
Also, it’s not congested enough yet.

Maybe if someone were to be making a 2.4 GHz receiver as an amateur project, it would matter.

I just like keeping it at a minimum, thinking that maybe it would reduce noise for others. Not that it really matters to anyone. Just a “feel good” thing.

Upgrade

to Linux

So, you needed the 100%

I looked into my router’s datasheet and all I can say is that it either doesn’t have it or they didn’t care to write it in (home model, nobody cares about details).

Also, the settings interface doesn’t have any reference, neither is the Transmit Power field saying “Max Transmit Power” (which would have lead me to believe that it may reduce the power in certain cases), so I am going to go with “No”, considering how old it is

Hehe, I am still using my old router with only the 2.4GHz band. Mostly just as a switch, but the WiFi is useful sometimes.

ATPC

Ahh. Turns out I asked the question 10 years too late.