Wireless issues, but oddly the opposite of what you normallyhear....

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 18:40:44 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     Your Bed and Breakfast place has a bad router. You can't do a thing 
>> about that. Expect free Internet to be buggy :-)
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
> A bad router?  REALLY?  Not bloody likely.  I'm curious about this.  Not 
> that I have a problem like this, but just because it's odd.  Channel 13 
> is a little weird though.  My router only goes to 11 (I checked just for 
> giggles).  I wonder if that's got something to do with it.
>
> This is where tcpdump is your friend, dumping the packets being being 
> passed between your card and the router would help nail this down in a 
> hurry.
>
>   
    He has the password for the Bed and Breakfast and it doesn't work 
even on Linux which has a big signal. The problem with his Windows 
sounds like a big cross country boarders problem. And Windows is always 
a problem as we who run Linux know.

    I still think the router has a problem.

Karl






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