[TriLUG] wifi woes

[Kevin Sonney]

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You know Jim, I've been running 802.11b/g in my house for a few years
now, and experience little to no problems - including heavy usage while
both my wife and myself play World of Warcraft. Just because you had a
bad experience does not mean that a technology sucks. It would be more
benificial to this group and to the poster if you had something
constructive to add to the discussion.

Something constructive :

I have some notes for the original poster : It sounds like there may be
somethign else interfering with the signal. If, perhaps, there is a 2.4
GhZ phone in the house, that will cause all manner of problems, since
phones tend to broadcast all over the spectrum, insteead of settling n
one channel or another like the WiFi Network. Additionally, changing the
channel on the AP & computers may reduce interference from other 2.4GhZ
devices.

Hope this helps, and please feel free to ignore Jim - he had a problem
with WiFi and hasn't let us forget it since. WiFi works great in homes,
at MANY large environments (including Cisco, Red Hat, IBM, UNC, and
NCSU), and in public places (Starbucks, the Pittsboro General Store
Cafe, etc). Don't let Jim fool you - the technology is fine, it's just
the setup that may need tweaking.

Jim Ray wrote:
| welcome to 802.11b.  if it is in your own home, take the time to run
| copper and kiss your problems good bye.
|
|> The problem, he tells me, is that he loses the connection
|> sporadically, sometimes only for five seconds, but sometimes for
|> minutes on end (even after bringing the interface down and back up)
|>
|>

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