Comments on: Wireless internet seems like a scam http://www.luminance.org/blog/uncategorized/2009/02/10/wireless-internet-seems-like-a-scam Programming and Game Development - Kevin Gadd's Blog Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:18:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Long Distance Router http://www.luminance.org/blog/uncategorized/2009/02/10/wireless-internet-seems-like-a-scam/comment-page-1#comment-140 Long Distance Router Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:52:40 +0000 http://www.luminance.org/?p=256#comment-140 <strong>Long Distance Router...</strong> Linksys really needs to come home to reality!! Our last two encounters with the customer service department has been quite unsatisfactory. When talking to the reps, it feels like you are talking to a rock or some being that is totally unable to think, ... Long Distance Router…

Linksys really needs to come home to reality!! Our last two encounters with the customer service department has been quite unsatisfactory. When talking to the reps, it feels like you are talking to a rock or some being that is totally unable to think, …

]]> By: Ted Reed http://www.luminance.org/blog/uncategorized/2009/02/10/wireless-internet-seems-like-a-scam/comment-page-1#comment-30 Ted Reed Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:23:12 +0000 http://www.luminance.org/?p=256#comment-30 FWIW, I've got a Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT on it, and a MacBook Pro 17" (first gen), and my connection is pretty much rock solid. My PS3 is a little less solid, but still works fine most of the time. My girlfriend's laptop (Compaq, I think?) drops connections all the time. I got her a USB adapter as part of her birthday present and I don't think it's dropped on that yet. For the record, I find that router with the 3rd party firmware to be more reliable than the stock firmware. Little known fact about wifi: To improve quality, you can have multiple access points. If you give all your access points the same name (ESSID, specifically) and security settings, it'll constitute one big wifi network, and your wireless host will automatically roam between access points. (Obviously, you'll need to do this with the access points set to bridge, rather than being a router. Also, set the channels as far apart as you can get them. Only channels 1,6,11 are completely nonoverlapping (in the US). FWIW, I’ve got a Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT on it, and a MacBook Pro 17″ (first gen), and my connection is pretty much rock solid. My PS3 is a little less solid, but still works fine most of the time. My girlfriend’s laptop (Compaq, I think?) drops connections all the time. I got her a USB adapter as part of her birthday present and I don’t think it’s dropped on that yet. For the record, I find that router with the 3rd party firmware to be more reliable than the stock firmware.

Little known fact about wifi: To improve quality, you can have multiple access points. If you give all your access points the same name (ESSID, specifically) and security settings, it’ll constitute one big wifi network, and your wireless host will automatically roam between access points. (Obviously, you’ll need to do this with the access points set to bridge, rather than being a router. Also, set the channels as far apart as you can get them. Only channels 1,6,11 are completely nonoverlapping (in the US).

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