Guitar cutting out FIX!!!

[mjmueller]

Hey guys:

Please make this sticky if you can. When I bought GH3 I had the same problems and knew it couldn't be a coincedence that my RB was having the same problem. If anyone is suffering from the Dongle loosing the signal to the guitar and making it impossible to get note streaks or even play the game, then it is your WIRELESS ROUTER!!. For some reason you have to change the channel on your Wireless router so it doesn't interfeer with the guitar signal. I went home and unplugged my router and everything was peachy. Awsome, this game is awsome now. I have the PS3 version.

Cheers,

Mj

[ian2783]

This does work! I tried it as soon as i got home after having nothing but problems last night with it. It still won't downstrum but that is a different issue!

FYI:

I have an apple airport extreme base station and turned on the "interference robustness" to fix the problem

[i5hawn]

Good find guys, just anothe reason why the RB guitars should use used BT over RF. quite frankly i hope the strats they release for 360 will eventually include the native wireless. at this piont i'm about to sell gh3 and gh2 w/ 2 xplorers to finance another copy of gh3 so i can have two les pauls. the number of wires involved is a bit much.

[ironchef]

do we know which wireless channel is interfering with the guitar?

[theaxis69]

Well, according to the FCC, here: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=845511&native_or_pdf=pdf
it transmits in this range 2408MHz~2474MHz. The standard WiFi channels 1-11 (in the US) range from 2412MHz~2462MHz. Close reading of the FCC doc shows that the guitar splits its range into 3 channels. Obviously, the wifi network range is contained completely within the guitar range. I don't know how the guitar chooses which channel to use. It might be random, it might do a quick interference scan.

My advice (and I think I'll try this when I get home) would be to set your wireless router to channel 11 (highest frequency) and then resync your guitar. If you have GH3, resync that one as well. Hopefully it will choose the lowest channel and produce the least amount of interference. this only applies to 802.11b/g networks, not 802.11a as they use a signal in the 5GHz range. Also, if your router can do it, you can try messing with it's transmit power, or even using a channel outside of the legally approved 1-11. Other countries can go up to channel 14 and most hardware supports that if you know how to configure it.

[JonhyXtreme]

How can I change these settings because up till now I've had nothing but problems with my guitar. And does it matter how far away your router is because mine is on the oppsite side of my house and I didn't have these problems with guitar hero 3.:confused:
Any help is appreciated.

[generik777]

What channel did you set your router to in order to fix the problem? My guitar has also given me nothing but problems with random disconnects.

[mjmueller]

Well, I went home at lunch and guitar was flawless, no drops. But tonight my guitar is really bad again loosing signal. Well, I know my neighbor has a wireless router, and I bet that is the problem. What am I supposed to do now, go over and ask if I can change his router settings? I really hope someone does something about this.

mj

[mjmueller]

anyone else still having this issue?

mj

[generik777]

Yeah I still have the problem. I even turned all my PC's woth wireless off along with my wireless router. The guitar still disconnects itself repeatedly. So much that the game is unplayable with guitar. I really hope someone comes out with a bluetooth guitar soon, although it still sucks that I had to pay for a guitar that sucks @ss.

[imagine]

Yep same problem partially - I never had a single problem with the GH3 dongle. I think they just used cheap IR recievers for the ROckband one that can be interrupted by any signal. I'm in an apartment with like 30 routers around me. So I'm not going door to do to change signals nor should I have to do so on my own network (I tried it though) and no luck just randomly the signal drops out

SO what channel does the Rockband Transmitter Actually Run ON?>

[ironchef]

I'm still having this problem also. I tried just about everything. Turned off my wifi, moved all cellphones away, moved all large metal objects away from the ps3. Hopefully the new guitar they're sending me works.

[chaseacej]

Having the same problem. Went out to a friends farm house where I know there is only one router within a half mile and I shut that off and still no luck keeping it connected.

They should have made the controllers bluetooth I dont see shy of cost why they didnt do this but if you think about cost it would most likely cost as much to make the dongle as it would to just put bluetooth inside the guitar directly.

[DoctorWho]

Yeah, you forget about the people (like me) who are picking up 15+ access points in your living room spanning all 11 wifi channels.

I've found the BEST THING YOU CAN DO: Get a USB extension cable and plug in the RB guitar receiver 5ft or less from where you're playing. Thats how we've solved our issue!

[imagine]

Lol that is crazy but yeah it might work. I'm hoping its faulty equipment thouhgh to beacuse my USB reciever actually looses power as well - So i think it's a bad reciever which would explain the crappy signal,

wonder if i hav ea usb extension laying around.


what do you kno i have a 6 foot one in the drawer unopened.


Ill try it and see what happens.