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

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:58:23 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:

> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
> 
>>     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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Oh?  Well, I will certainly bow to superior knowledge here.  Wait, no I
> won't.  Look, he's seeing the router on Channel 13.  That's not a
> standard NA channel (as per the other post concerning this.) I thought
> 13 sounded funny for a channel when mine goes to only 11.  I did some
> research and the previous poster is correct in that 13 is not an
> accepted channel in NA.
> 
> With that said, I can almost guarantee Vista won't see it (if a NA OS
> that is), and I would be willing to bet Linux can, but maybe there's
> something in the code that's causing trouble.

It would be interesting to try if Vista will see the wireless if it was 
set to an other country where channel 13 is legit. This might even help 
with Linux. It will only cost you a minute. You might try Great Britain, 
I think channel 13 is legit there.

> (Also, the B & B either doesn't get a lot of wireless customers, or they
> aren't having any trouble using it.)
> 
> As I said, tcpdump will tell you a LOT more than what we know.  Without
> that I can't say the router is bad, it could simply be the wireless
> password is wrong (say the owner changed it and forgot to tell him the
> new one).  I mean it's HIGHLY unlikely the router itself is bad.

Aart