Hey Ray - I personally use a Linksys Wireless 4 Point Cable/DSL Router along with a USB Wireless Connector. Works well, but has several minor issues.
When I startup the machine, the USB device loads and sometimes, for no discernable reason, does not want to work. The signal strength drops and the device cannot reconnect. This despite the fact a laptop in the same room has a 100% strength signal. Always have to reboot, and the machine will work fine after that. I think the problem has to do with the fact that this is a USB device. I'd like to see if I have the same problem with a wireless NIC like I have on the laptop (which always runs fine). The USB device is configured to work over a channel, and I have to switch the channels about once a month. Nothing serious, but, again, inexplicable... When the channel needs to be changed, I know it because I suddenly start having problems with latency. I will be using RDS and suddenly saving a page takes about five minutes. It took me about a month of Saturdays to learn how to place nice with my current configuration, but things work fine now and I have no major problems with the minor issues. My cordless phone is 2.4 Ghz, and the router has no problems with it. The one thing I would recommend is looking at Amazon before buying from Best Buy. I paid about $80 less for the router and the USB device purchasing over the Web than if I purchased from Best Buy, and they have a policy about not price matching Internet sales. M -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:38 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Looking for wireless recommendations I read in pcmag recently that many of the vendors for "g" style wireless (sorry, I can't remember the _exact_ spec name) are selling units that can be upgraded to meet the "real" spec when its finalized. That being said - I'm really beginning to hate the flakiness of my current "b" style wireless network. It works... about 60% of the time. Enough for browsing - not quite enough for me to nicely Remote Machine in. The "g" style is supposed to be quite stronger... but does anyone have any practical experience with these units? I'm thinking of picking up a linksys unit at Best Buy. They have a nice return policy so at worse - I'm out my time, nothing more. ======================================================================== === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
