We have had major problems with our wireless connection for the last year.  Every time we put the microwave on the  internet was disconnected. We spent endless hours on the internet (when the  microwave was off!) looking for solutions. We tried re-positioning the router, tried different metal barriers, surge protectors and so on.

In the end we  gave up, and just had to make an anouncement to our rather disgruntled teenage MSN users that we needed to use the microwave and they would have to face being signed off. My husband then had to retire from his job as a  Physics teacher. With plenty of time on his hands he was determined to solve  it.

The solution was so easy, I am writing to tell you, as I am sure  someone out there is as desperate as we were. He turned the access point's transmitting and receiving aerials through 90 degrees. We never had a problem again. He  explained that the microwaves must be polarised, so the 90 degree turn meant  that the microwaves were no longer picked up by the aerial. This has worked  completely.

Everyone out there probably already knows this, but  we hadn't been able to find this solution from anywhere and just had to tell  someone!

Judith Lisgarten