[dba-Tech] Wireless discovery

so it could damage it? right... better have another look for that aerial :-(

Thanks for the warning!


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Erwin Craps [mailto:Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be]
Sent: 29 October 2003 15:10
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Wireless discovery


I would not do that often.
Your transmit power get reflected (SWR) back to the poweramp transistor
which could get defect due to no antenna...

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Van: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens Jon Tydda
Verzonden: woensdag 29 oktober 2003 15:50
Aan: Dba-Tech (E-mail)
Onderwerp: [dba-Tech] Wireless discovery


Fixing a friends pc last night, I made a rather startling discovery...

I've got a wireless LAN at home, so I didn't have to drill any holes to
pass cables from my bedroom into the sitting room below, where the
Router and hub are. I bought two wireless cards - one is in my pc the
other is a spare, which I install in every pc that I fix, so I can use
the internet to download drivers and update things etc. So I installed
this card into my friends pc, and spent an hour or so looking for the
aerial, which had mysteriously vanished from the plastic box. Upon not
finding it, I gave up looking and temporarily removed the aerial from my
pc's card and started to work on the other one. 

I didn't bother setting Zonealarm's button to "Stop all internet
activity" as I reasoned that not having an aerial would be a sufficient
barrier to hackers... Not so apparently. Imagine my surprise when an
e-mail arrived... So I looked at the signal strength... 6% quality and
strength on my pc. I removed the aerial from the other pc and found that
sitting in the centre of the room (rather than in the corner as mine is)
it had a signal strength and quality of over 50%... to say I was
completely dumbfounded was an understatement... it never occurred to me
that it would be able to work without the aerial.



Jon Tydda

IT Support Technician



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