Hi Dave, thank you for answering. Already helped me a bit. You were right - the transmitting power of my cards is way too low. In case I hold my laptop far out of the window I will get associated with the access points (Citi-Net Wireless Internet, citinet, citinet-public), but as it is raining today I won't do that for too long ;-)
Do you have any idea where I can buy such a Engenius 200mw adapter? Here in the hotel I tried the internal centrino of my laptop, a Netgear (PRISM2) and a Cisco Aironet 350, which has a transmitting power of 100mW. Still not enough. I went to 470 3rd Street to the office of sipandsurf, because I read in the Internet that one could buy these cards there. But they were not in their office. So I belive with an adapter with higher trasmitting power it should work. Would like to try it with an Engenius 200mw. BTW, I am from the wireless group in Berlin, Germany. In case one day you would need a high speed wireless Internet connection in Berlin, just visit http://www.freifunk.net/, http://wlanfhain.databang.org/ <- unfortunately all in German, or send me an email ;-) Have a nice evening, Frank Zitiere Dave Vettermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Frank, > > I'm not exactly active on BAWUG (never posted anything) but I do > monitor > it; I'm a partner in one of the Citi-Net iterations... hopefully I can > help you along somewhat with who we are and what we're about. The > reason you can't find too much information on the web is that we're > currently developing the website... We're more into building networks > than websites. ;) Though it's not much, you're welcome to take a > look, > http://www.citi-net.info. > > Basically what you're seeing is two somewhat-related companies that do > pretty much the same thing, but with slightly different > implementations. > We generally serve apartment buildings, and the coverage often bleeds > into the surrounding areas. > > What I'm guessing is happening is that you're seeing some of our > higher-power links, but they aren't able to see your return traffic. > In > an ideal situation, you should be able to associate and access the > subscription pages with no problem. > > I could probably give you a bit better connectivity advice if I knew > which hotel you were in. I'm guessing somewhere on O'Farrell? I'd > also > be curious to hear what sort of card/antenna setup you're using. > > Hope that helps some. If you have any further questions, I'm happy to > help. > > Regards, > > Dave. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] City Net Wireless in SFO > > > Hello all, > > I just moved into a hotel in downtown San Francisco which dows not > offer > > Internet access. Unfortunately. > > So I was looking for a hotspot in this area an my room is covered by > several "City Net Wireless Internet", "citynet-public" etc. WLAN > clouds. > I > tried to connect (no encryption is activated, SSID is broadcasted), > but > it > seams the APs won't let me in. > > Does anybody know how I might subscribe - I even would pay for a high > speed > Internet access the time I am here? > > What actually is Citu Net? I did not find to much information in the > net > about > this wireless Internet access company. > > Or I got to move to another hotel - does anybody have a good > recommendation in > down town SFO? I even would not need any TV or sauna - Internet access > is by > far the most important feature they should offer ;-) > > Cheers, > > > Frank > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
