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From: Woody on 22 Mar 2010 19:07 On 22/03/2010 22:28, Ian McCall wrote: > On 2010-03-22 11:00:59 +0000, g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com (Gareth John) > said: > >> How busy is the air where you are? > > Only one, sometimes two extra but trying to avoid the signal has driven > us back to wired to a large extent. I'm now using HomePlug kit to shift > AV data around, I always use the wired connection if working in the > study and the wireless is relegated to 'casual' stuff - just day-to-day > faffing on the net via a laptop. Anything bandwidth-intensive is put > back to a wired device. Similar to that in the main 'data points'. We have homeplug (av100) in my office (PCs, server, tablets), where the adsl used to come in, one in Sabs upstairs office, iMac and main printer, and one in the living room, where the adsl wireless router is now. The laptops live down there and get their network via wireless. At some point we are putting an extension on the house, where she can work properly with storage, and that will probably need its own homeplug stuff there too, as it will be out of range of the wireless. -- Woody
From: Peter Hayes on 22 Mar 2010 19:10 On 22/03/2010 11:00, Gareth John wrote: > Once upon a time I thought I was pretty smart having a set of LocalTalk > cables running around my house. Then came wired ethernet, and now a > combo of wires and wireless. > > Sitting at home here (in a West London suburb) iStumbler can see > thirteen other active networks beside mine, all clamouring for airspace > - and almost all on either channel 1, 6 or 11. Signal strengths range > from '91%' to 19%' (whatever that means). > > I feel a bit smug, because mine's the only one using a unique channel. > For now. > > But is 15 a record? How busy is the air where you are? > > Gareth. 8 networks 3 WPA, 3 WPA2, 1 WEP and one open. 2 on channel 6, 3 on channel 1 and 1 each on 4, 11 and 13 (me using Apple Airport). Other than my own network only 1 has a signal strength over 25%. From the names I suspect a WPA and WPA2 have the same owner. All a Cotswolds residential area. Great that iStumbler is now working again on the latest OS X. Pete H
From: Peter Hayes on 22 Mar 2010 19:21 On 22/03/2010 23:10, Peter Hayes wrote: > > 8 networks 3 WPA, 3 WPA2, 1 WEP and one open. 2 on channel 6, 3 on > channel 1 and 1 each on 4, 11 and 13 (me using Apple Airport). Other > than my own network only 1 has a signal strength over 25%. From the > names I suspect a WPA and WPA2 have the same owner. All a Cotswolds > residential area. Great that iStumbler is now working again on the > latest OS X. > Must have been configuring a new toy, the open one is now WEP. At least users now know that an open network is dangerous, would be nice if the manufacturers defaulted to WPA2 in the setup menus. Pete H
From: David Horne on 23 Mar 2010 01:01 Gareth John <g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com> wrote: > Once upon a time I thought I was pretty smart having a set of LocalTalk > cables running around my house. Then came wired ethernet, and now a > combo of wires and wireless. > > Sitting at home here (in a West London suburb) iStumbler can see > thirteen other active networks beside mine, all clamouring for airspace > - and almost all on either channel 1, 6 or 11. Signal strengths range > from '91%' to 19%' (whatever that means). > > I feel a bit smug, because mine's the only one using a unique channel. > For now. > > But is 15 a record? How busy is the air where you are? I frequently get 30-45, which is not surprising as it's an apartment block in the centre of Manchester. That's on the terrace- if inside, that drops dramatically to 5-10 depending where... something to do with the mylar coating in the windows maybe? -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Hugh Browton on 23 Mar 2010 06:18
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:01:02 +0000, David Horne wrote (in article <1jfsj4l.rgm93v1gla47aN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>): > Gareth John <g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com> wrote: > >> Once upon a time I thought I was pretty smart having a set of LocalTalk >> cables running around my house. Then came wired ethernet, and now a >> combo of wires and wireless. >> >> Sitting at home here (in a West London suburb) iStumbler can see >> thirteen other active networks beside mine, all clamouring for airspace >> - and almost all on either channel 1, 6 or 11. Signal strengths range >> from '91%' to 19%' (whatever that means). >> >> I feel a bit smug, because mine's the only one using a unique channel. >> For now. >> >> But is 15 a record? How busy is the air where you are? > > I frequently get 30-45, which is not surprising as it's an apartment > block in the centre of Manchester. That's on the terrace- if inside, > that drops dramatically to 5-10 depending where... something to do with > the mylar coating in the windows maybe? > > Isn't Mylar what Daniele calls the RDF coating? -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) "The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002) |