802.11

[David Bandel]

On 1/5/06, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
[snip]
>
> Interesting page. Not that I knew what to enter. I live in an old
> building (>100 years), and some walls are very thick (>1 foot) with
> stone and brick. I have a wireless access point (11g) that I simply
> cannot reach from some surprising places. So I have been looking at
> newer hardware that claim to address these issues. Like 11pre-n. A
> friend that works for Swedish telecom (Televerket) said that a main
> reason pre-n and other higher-availability devices have not been
> finalized (pre-n -> n) is that to provide greater availability they up
> the power, which is not considered a good thing to do in home
> appliances. The real odd thing is that I can sometimes connect to a
> neighbor's access point better than my own - even when I am in the same
> room with mine. And the neighbor's AP is behind a number of these walls.
> Odd.

If you are in the same room and cannot connect, the problem is with
your equipment (or configuration of same).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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