[geeks] Wireless AP

[Andrew Weiss]

On Feb 12, 2004, at 1:54 PM, David Selders wrote:
> It's been really flakey the last couple of weeks.  I thought it was the
> wireless card in my laptop, so I replaced it and it worked great until
> last night.  I have tried all the channels with the same result.  It
> will work for a minute or two at most and then start a cycle of
> disconnect and connect.  When it is working for that minute or so it's
> extremely slow.  I'm wondering if it's not some sort of interferance.
> I'm running on a windows laptop(belongs to $WORK) so I ran netstumbler
> to see what other networks were "visible" in the area.  I only came
> across one and it was a very week signal.  So I'm kind of at a loss as
> to whats going on.
>

Whatever you do... don't buy a Dell wireless router.  My dad got one
with his new system.  They blow goat.  They also don't work at all well
with Apple hardware and the DHCP server that is built-in also blows
goat.

Andrew
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------
"I know you like to keep tabs on your parents to make sure they havent
blown up the TV, moved to the country, planted peaches and found Jesus
on their own." -- My mother in an e-mail recently quoting John Denver