Why is my wireless so bad...

The_Chancer

And why do you think having my watch stuck under the PCMCIA card make the signal strength that much better - especially as when my hand gets near it - it cuts out alltogether... I am sat no more than 3 feet from the router (125Mb belkin jobby) with a 125Mb card - and get at most 80.. (usually 54) which just dont cut it. I mean I understand that it isn't as guaranteed as a wired connection, but when the 11Mb next door (through a solid brick wall from the router) gains better signal strength than I do.. I'm a little peeved...

Anyway - rant over - I'm off to change the channel and position of the router out of the lead box I placed it in earlier.. LOL

dalecosp

Heh .... I've an 11Mbps link to a repeater on a water tower about 2.6 air miles away.

Over the weekend we have had straight line winds gusting over 60 miles/hour, and the blasted antenna keeps turning off track ... :rolleyes:

vaaaska

Whoa...what's a 'repeater'? One of these keep popping up in my network. We're so close to the EU Parliament I've been wondering if we would soon fall into their network (which I bet will be free). Oh man, oh man...

Anyways, although I'll probably buy a proper wireless modem for Christmas, our neighbors wifi is pretty darn quick. 😉

Weedpacket

I was working at one inner-city business which bounced its connection off a microwave repeater about one kilometre way horizontally, and three hundred metres vertically.

About a year later, it started dropping packets all over the place (even when it didn't cut out completely, effective bandwidth could get as low as 2kbps - we might as well have been back in the early 1980s).

It wasn't the weather; it was a construction site that lay along the sightline. Every now and then the tower crane would swing through and park itself in the way. It seems microwaves didn't go through steel.

dalecosp

Weedpacket wrote:
I was working at one inner-city business which bounced its connection off a microwave repeater about one kilometre way horizontally, and three hundred metres vertically.

About a year later, it started dropping packets all over the place (even when it didn't cut out completely, effective bandwidth could get as low as 2kbps - we might as well have been back in the early 1980s).

It wasn't the weather; it was a construction site that lay along the sightline. Every now and then the tower crane would swing through and park itself in the way. It seems microwaves didn't go through steel.

Heh. not at small wattages, anyway ... wonder if it got hot? 😃

We managed somehow to make it through the summer, albeit not with stellar performance. It sure helps when the trees drop their foilage --- as long as the wind stays below 40 mph or so, too.... 😃