As a long ago CB'er I have to ask, can there be skip on the 2.4 range? :) Purrrdy soon we'll be yellin 'breaker' to some leeeneir driven AP just south of the border, streamin Wolfman Spam... but i digress.
On 6/11/2010 10:16 PM, MDK wrote: > This evening I was at one of my access points... one that has several > backhauls and various 2.4 and 5 ghz ap's at it. > > After I was done with my few minutes of doing things, I wanted to make sure > I had not physically disconnected or accidentally unhooked anything (messing > with the batteries, checking water levels, etc). I pulled out a netbook. > Acer Aspire One to be precise, running windows xp, using the normal wifi > card it came with. I fired it up (it is set to "any" so it simply > associates to the access points that are open at home, work, etc), and after > I was done, noted it said it was connected, at which point I opened google > on the browser to confirm connectivity. Google popped up, meaning things > were connected, and then I decided to run a speed test. I got about 30KB/s > speed, which is like painfully slow. I was standing outside, with the > netbook sitting on the hood of my truck. > > So, I decided to see what it was associated to, and it was another access > point ... 11 MILES AWAY! I confirmed it by the SSID and by the ip dhcp > had assigned, as belonging to the ap 11 miles distant. > > It has no external antenna, just the one the factory built into the netbook. > > I have detected, using netstumbler and the internal antenna on my laptop > (dell C610 and CM9 installed) access points over 24 miles away before, but > this is the longest, by far, I have been able to get a real connection, dhcp > assignment, and transfer data. > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy > 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
