[geeks] Airport Express

[Thomas Gallaway]

sammy ominsky wrote:

> On Jul 15, 2004, at 07:35, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> device - see: http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
>
>
>> Anyone else get/getting one?
>
>
> I want one, but I don't like pre-ordering. I'll wait 'till they get to 
> the stores.
>
> I really hope this thing will help with my wireless problems. For some 
> reason the signal keeps fading in and out, sometimes rather badly. 
> When that happens, the Airport Extreme in my powerbook resets itself 
> in a misguided attempt to recover a good signal rather than keep going 
> on a weak one.
>
> For anyone who might have suggestions, I'm using a Linksys WRT54G 
> router/access point with linksys firmware version 2.02.8-security in 
> G-only mode on channel 6. I've tried 1 also, but with no difference. I 
> have a neighbor on 11, so I can't go there. It's weird, because 
> everything was fine 'till about a month ago, and it all started going 
> bad. I wonder if another neighbor is using some bizarre spread 
> spectrum phone or something that walks all over the entire 2.4GHz range.
>
> I'm just hoping the Airport Express being plugged in in the same room 
> with me will help my Airport Extreme not reset, and maintain the 
> connection even when the signal degrades for some reason.


If you can get your hands on a proxim rangelan2 card (i have one at 
home) there is a tool called "snoop". This will scan the 2.4ghz 
frequency band and tell you what is going on with that spectrum.

*http://tinyurl.com/4ob2n*

-- Thomas