Andrew Lentvorski([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:58:16AM -0700: > Wade Curry wrote: > > >Oh, come on... if Bert and Ernie can cooperate on Sesame Street, > >why can't we? Honestly, I don't see people complaining about > >how their neighbors' wifi is causing interference. > > Uh, not true. > Oh, I *know* it causes interference, but it isn't the thing people complain about. Obviously _some_ geeks do. Unintended users seems to bug people a lot more.
I don't bother with WPA at all. I usually just tell my AP not to broadcast the SSID. Doing so lets me keep things simple for visitors, but cuts down on purely accidental connections. > My wireless is now down below 802.11b speeds due to *way* too > many access points. > > The problem is that: > > A) there is no good solution B) even if there was, I can't locate > the AP's > Exactly. There isn't a good solution technologically. If it's possible to contact neighbors and figure out a way to cooperate... Maybe you could share bandwidth and get some more speed and load balancing. Who knows? If that isn't possible or preferable, then it would appear that the best thing to do is put up with it. > Even worse, 802.11n is going to squirt crap all over the 5GHz > band, so I can't even escape ther anymore. :( > Adding dish-type antennae to APs apparently helps in directing the signal, but is there any way to make the client's antenna more directional? I'm thinking of laptops with built-in wireless, mostly. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
