RE: Evaluating Bandwidth

2008-03-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
We are a provider on the AFCity network and at the moment it suffers from a lot of network problems that the providers cannot really do anything about. I believe a new private owner is going to take over the residential part of the network so we'll see what happens. I haven't been able to contac

RE: Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City

2008-03-06 Thread Sterling Jacobson
That's interesting but wildly misrepresented. Picking up a signal is different from computing actual throughput. There is a reason mesh networks have a mesh protocol and layer 1 RF built to handle multiple nodes. But the truth of the matter is that if you are close enough to one then you could

Re: Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City

2008-03-06 Thread Alan Young
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Alec Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting article about Wi-Fi in SLC in IEEE Spectrum magazine. > http://spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/6025 FON ( http://www.fon.com ) is doing something that addresses some of these security issues. I'd really like to try this

Re: Evaluating Bandwidth

2008-03-06 Thread Trevor Sharpe
Dennis Muhlestein wrote: > We recently moved our office to American Fork. We were set up with > AfConnect without a lot of input from anyone. Does anyone know if > they do anything weird with bandwidth limiting? Perhaps they are just > plain slow. > > We supposedly get 6 megabit up/down but I d

Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City

2008-03-06 Thread Alec Shaw
Interesting article about Wi-Fi in SLC in IEEE Spectrum magazine. http://spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/6025 Alec /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Evaluating Bandwidth

2008-03-06 Thread Dennis Muhlestein
We recently moved our office to American Fork. We were set up with AfConnect without a lot of input from anyone. Does anyone know if they do anything weird with bandwidth limiting? Perhaps they are just plain slow. We supposedly get 6 megabit up/down but I don't download anything near that rate