[dba-Tech] Unstable Wireless Netowrk

Plus a bit of Friday humour, late.

A guy got busted in Ontario a couple of weeks back for driving the wrong
way down a one-way street. Then the officer noticed the man was not
wearing pants. Then the officer noticed that the man had a notebook
computer running on the passenger seat. Turns out the guy was hooking
into a wireless network on that street and downloading kiddie porn.

True story.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William
Hindman
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 9:03 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Unstable Wireless Netowrk


...tunable wireless network interference filters are readily available
...the intermittent nature suggest a neighbor got a new phone or
microwave, etc. in your wireless band.

William Hindman "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees
with me." Disraeli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Unstable Wireless Netowrk


> On 6 Mar 2004 at 19:29, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access S wrote:
>
> > I've got four machines hardwired in a wireless router and one 
> > wireless.
The wireless has been working pretty well for several months.  Suddenly
it's become very unstable, dropping in and out, being available and then
not, at random.
> >
> > Could be the wireless router, I suppose getting flaky.  But I'm
wondering if some windows update might be responsible, requiring
something new that I'm not aware of.
> >
> > We're not using encryption.  Could another wireless network in the
neighborhood be causing some problem?
> >
> > Anyone know of anything like that?
> >
>
> More likely to be interference than anything else.
>
> It's starting to happen more and more as people put in there own 
> systems in  close proximity to others.
>
> Quote from Linksys:
>
> "Any device operating in the 2.4 GHz spectrum may cause network 
> interference with a 802.11b wireless device. Some devices that may 
> prove troublesome include 2.4 GHz cordless phones, microwave ovens, 
> adjacent public hotspots, and neighboring 802.11b wireless LANs."
>
> Any neighbours set up recently? Can you change channel on your 
> network?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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