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   Generating traffic

   

   AMetamorphosis, Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 9:50am

   
   

   
   
   I just shot over to techdirt wireless to check it out. I bought a new lap top with a wifi card and need to educate myself on its use.
   
   I don't see much activity on the wireless site ? ! ? I think I saw maybe a total of 4 comments. What's up with this ?
   
   Are you posting this story here in order to generate some traffic ?
   
   PS. Thanks for a really informative site that despite my occasional disagreement with you, rocks.

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 10:34am

   
   

   Seems kind of funny a wireless conference, can't even get their wireless network to function properly :-)

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   Re: Generating traffic

   

   Mike (profile), Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 10:47am

   
   

   Nope. It was just a general announcement in case people here were interested in the news from the conference. The wireless site is much more focused on wireless industry folks as opposed to a general technology audience.

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   Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end...

   

   colin, Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 11:02am

   
   

   You haven't put any info as to where the problem seems to be on/in their network, but if you think it's due to the signal between their AP and your laptop, you have to get one of these:
   http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/SenaoCard
   You can buy the EXT2 model (and 2 small antannas that just poke out 3 or so inches off it) at sites like netgate.com for about $110 US shipped. I'm doing some long-distance wireless stuff and the link quality/distance gain is huge with such a card. (Internal antenna version avail. too, cheaper)
   

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   Re: Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end..

   

   Mike (profile), Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 11:09am

   
   

   Colin,
   
   Nope. I actually have one of those cards. The signal is strong, but it keeps kicking me (and others) out of the network, and making us log back in every few minutes.

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   Re: Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end..

   

   MLO, Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 12:03pm

   
   

   You're not running XP are you?
   
   There is a well known problem with XP's Zero Config wireless and certain wireless routers. If you hit up www.arstechnica.com, the article should be on the front page. If it isn't, do a search for "wireless"
   
   Hope that helps.
   
   MLO

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   Re: Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end..

   

   Mike (profile), Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 5:34pm

   
   

   The problem was with the wireless set up at the conference. The hotel apparently allocated much less than promised bandwidth, so the end result was twofold: (1) when you were on, it was damn slow (2) the system was *very* quick about kicking people off if you didn't send/receive any packets after a couple of minutes. So, just in the time it takes to write up a single post, I'd often get kicked off.
   
   It's always the wireless conferences that have the worst problems with wireless connectivity.

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