<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Quite true, and made worse by the fact that to most consumers it appears that there are 10 or more channels available,<br>
when they actually overlap, causing there to be just 3 actually individual channels, but since people don't know that, </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
they may well pick a channel they *think* is apart from their neighbors, when in fact it is not.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>I forgot about that. I really wish they hadn't done that with the channel numbering. That alone likely causes more problems than it would possibly solve. Now people that are literate enough to understand they need to avoid channels in use are trying to do the right thing, not realizing they are causing problems. <br>
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WiFi should only be used for portable roaming machines, not permanent or semi-permanent installations, but again you can't<br>
expect the people selling such gear to tell people that. I plug my laptop in to my router when I'm home, using WiFi only<br>
when traveling or at public hotspots.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>I don't go quite that far, but at home I have little RFI so WiFi works OK for 90% of what I need it to do from a laptop. If I want to move large amounts of data around between machines locally, I do plug it in though. It helps that I had access to the house while it was being built, so I just put a ton of copper in the walls. I would have included fiber if it wasn't so expensive at the time. Obviously, many people didn't have the ability to get cables in the walls durring construction. But there are a lot of ways to run cable in a hidden way, though they tend to be more expensive and time consuming. And if you rent, not much you can do unless the landlord is OK with it. But you can generally run cat5 along baseboards without it being ugly. It would be nice if there were a good solution for those people, but sadly, there really isn't. I don't care what the maker of wireless devices says, they can't touch the performance of copper. It doesn't help that they advertise the link speed and say nothing about real thoughput, which is generally about 50% link speed. Far worse if you have more than one client on that AP, which many people don't run into unless they start messing with stuff like Myth. :) </div>
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