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From: Jim on 15 Dec 2009 12:18 On 2009-12-15, John Hill <nemo(a)erewhon.invalid> wrote: > As a quick follow-up, I see that my WiFi includes under Channel an > "Automatic" setting, which claims to use the best available. Would it be > a wise move to select this? My own experience with that setting hasn't been great, to be honest. I'd stick with what you've got until yuo really have to change it for some reason. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "A Microsoft spokesman said: "We spent five years and $350million developing a system that would make it really easy for us not to give you your money back." The Daily Mash
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 15 Dec 2009 13:20 On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:18:55 +0000, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >On 2009-12-15, John Hill <nemo(a)erewhon.invalid> wrote: >> As a quick follow-up, I see that my WiFi includes under Channel an >> "Automatic" setting, which claims to use the best available. Would it be >> a wise move to select this? > >My own experience with that setting hasn't been great, to be honest. I'd >stick with what you've got until yuo really have to change it for some >reason. Likewise - that "automatic" only picks a channel when you boot the wifi device, so it wouldn't have avoided the issue you saw. Unless you'd rebooted the wifi trying to get a fix, that is. Cheers - Jaimie -- "I do not like the feel of the middle way; and I do not like the smell of the left hand way" -- J R R Tolkien
From: Peter Hayes on 15 Dec 2009 17:22 On 15/12/2009 09:39, T i m wrote: > > The way to try to improve your own situation (it could change at any > time of course) is to download a WiFi sniffer, possibly: > > http://www.macstumbler.com/ > > then turn your router off and run the sniffer to show you all the > channels that are being used locally. Pick one that is the lest used > (or unused) or if there isn't a completely spare slot, one with the > lowest signal strength (suggesting it's further away) and ideally a > couple away from any other channel. > MacStumbler has not been updated since 2007, and does not work at all with the latest OS X. Shame as it was a product I liked and supported. I've got an old OS X backup on a firewire disk which does support MacStumbler and my old scanner, it's worth buying a new backup disk just to keep them working. Pete H
From: T i m on 15 Dec 2009 18:25 On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:22:15 +0000, Peter Hayes <aphnospam(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >On 15/12/2009 09:39, T i m wrote: > >> >> The way to try to improve your own situation (it could change at any >> time of course) is to download a WiFi sniffer, possibly: >> >> http://www.macstumbler.com/ >> >> then turn your router off and run the sniffer to show you all the >> channels that are being used locally. Pick one that is the lest used >> (or unused) or if there isn't a completely spare slot, one with the >> lowest signal strength (suggesting it's further away) and ideally a >> couple away from any other channel. >> > >MacStumbler has not been updated since 2007, and does not work at all >with the latest OS X. Shame as it was a product I liked and supported. I spotted something might not be quite right when I explored the link I posted to MacStumbler. I just Googled 'netstumbler osx' and it gave me that and as it seemed likely as I've been using Netstumbler for good while now ... >I've got an old OS X backup on a firewire disk which does support >MacStumbler and my old scanner, it's worth buying a new backup disk just >to keep them working. Luckily, all the software I require just needs 'Windows' and for nearly 10 years that seems to include XP. ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: Woody on 15 Dec 2009 19:11
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:22:15 +0000, Peter Hayes > <aphnospam(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > >I've got an old OS X backup on a firewire disk which does support > >MacStumbler and my old scanner, it's worth buying a new backup disk just > >to keep them working. > > Luckily, all the software I require just needs 'Windows' and for > nearly 10 years that seems to include XP. ;-) Lucky to be you. I now have two tools with system requirements I use for work. One is Vista or Windows 7 (ie, windows 7!) and the other is XP only. I finally have an actual requirement for having to use VM of an XP image. -- Woody www.alienrat.com |