Neighbours wireless router prob

Change your channel, don't hide your SSID, change the SSID to something that means "you" instead of the default from the router, roll a 128-bit WEP key.

Is SSID broadcast enabled? Initial thoughts were that turning SSID broadcast off would improve security, but it turns out it just causes connection problems.

What kind of AP does your neighbor have? Some "really high speed" APs would clobber nearby WiFi networks by hogging all the bandwidth. Your only solution there might be to convince your neighbor to turn off those features as unnessesary (why do you need 108 megabits to share a {1.5,3,6} megabit broadband connection?)

What OS are you running?

I had the same problem a while back and changing the channel worked. I also used Network Stumbler and walked around until I got the strongest signal. Then talked to the neighbor. I never could figure why I had a strong signal from my router and a really weak signal from my neighbor but would connect to his router.

I've tried to set up WEP on my home network before but never could get connect with it enabled. Can you give me a brief explaination how to set it up. Do I just make up a hex key myself?

Depends on your router's configuration pages, but enable WEP, select

(*) Note that passphrases are not interoperable across vendors, and passphrases are much less secure than a good random string of hex digits.

Well, I roll a pair of 16-sided dice, but I do this a lot, and am a bit of a geek. You can get the same result from 104 coin tosses or any other decent random number generator.

I had been trying the 64bit and never could get it to work. When I tried the 128bit it worked the first time :-)

Thanks, Danny