My Fart Came Out Lumpy
The new acronym thats sweeping the internet faster that lol or wtf.
Ok, not really but it makes me laugh.
Our Chuck Norris DVDs showed up today. We’re quite excited and shall break into them this evening. A great end to the year…some real Chuck style American justice…
So I figured something out this weekend with regards to extending my wireless range without upgrading my wireless router hardware.
You see, I have a reasonably up to date 802.11g wireless router froim Linksys. I have been having trouble with getting signal in my living room which is on the opposite side of the house from my computer room and WRT54G router. The connection was intermittent and spotty at best. I had it set up with the default setting of using 802.11g mode, and wireless channel 6. I assumed that this would be the best it could do. Until I happened to read on a website, which I can unfortunately not find again, that mentioned that using Wireless channel 1 and the 802.11b standard gives you greater wall penetration. I was sceptical at first but decided to try.
Much to my suprise, I now get almost full wireless signal where before I had almost unusable coverage.
The drawback I must mention is that your wireless speeds willbe reduced to 11mbps from a potential of 54mbps. This seems like it would be much slower, but the fact you must remember is that most often people use their wireless connection for internet browsing, which normally only runs at 1-8mbps. Leaving a fair bit of overhead in most cases under the 802.11b speeds. You will only see the issue in file transfers on the local LAN.
So there’s my tip for the day.