CentOS - Feb 2014 - Problem with wireless router

Hello,

I am using wireless N on a DLink-655 wireless router.  It is the "A" 
hardware version with the latest firmware.
I am using a channel that no one in my vicinity is using, according to 
iwlist.
I checked the Statistics from the router web interface and they are 
shown below for a period of less than an hour.
It looks like the errors are excessive, especially the "RX Packets
Dropped"
Is this par for the course and TCP takes care of it or am I having 
hardware problems with my router?

Thank you,
Joe

Wireless Statistics
Sent :138143
TX Packets Dropped :41
Received :99485
RX Packets Dropped :50911
Errors :27

> On Feb 20, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using wireless N on a DLink-655 wireless router.  It is the
"A"
> hardware version with the latest firmware.
> I am using a channel that no one in my vicinity is using, according to 
> iwlist.
> I checked the Statistics from the router web interface and they are 
> shown below for a period of less than an hour.
> It looks like the errors are excessive, especially the "RX Packets
Dropped"
> Is this par for the course and TCP takes care of it or am I having 
> hardware problems with my router?
> 
> Thank you,
> Joe
> 
> Wireless Statistics
> Sent :138143
> TX Packets Dropped :41
> Received :99485
> RX Packets Dropped :50911
50% is a high drop rate. Are you using 2.4ghz? Try a different channel. While
iwlist may not show anything talking 802.11 on your channel other things not may
be one the channel. Baby monitor, bluetooth, wireless security camera, etc could
be 'constant transmitters' on the same frequency causing the 50% drop
rate which you are seeing. I'm not sure what wifi linux tools can identify
constant transmitters.