[TriLUG] wifi woes

[Kevin Sonney]

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Sorry, seems my thunderbird spell check missed that one. I apologize if
I offend grammatically.

Jim Ray wrote:
| i'm glad yours works.  my expensive 802.11b link between two
| manufacturing plants works great, too.  copper works better.  that's an
| honest constructive opinion of mine that i practice and preach wherein
| no comment like "that technology sucks" exists.  so, until you've got
| something constructive to add, kindly hit your delete key if you don't
| like what you see.
|
| maybe you should learn to spell beneficial before correcting the english
| of others.
|
| hth,
|
| jim
|
|>
|> 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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