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I have a friend with an old Win 98 machine with the exact same problem. Sadly they do not believe me that their computer is a POS. I feel your pain! :-) Scriv Mark Koskenmaki wrote: >I did an install up on the mountains today... It's just about a half hour's >drive from my workshop, almost an hour's drive from home... > >Although this is a very remote AP, there ARE a few homes nearby. And one of >those had called and we're doing the install. So, we get her IMAC hooked >up and viola! It works. But, my speed test was chugging along at only .9 >to 1.5Mbit - it's a web based script that estimates download speed. > >So, I downloaded a file. Sure enough... It starts about 175KB/sec, and >after about 5 megs go by, it's crawling along at 80KB. I log into the cpe >and try adjusting every stinking thing I can, making sure we have great RSSI >at both ends (ap and cpe). Still, the data flow is not good at all. > >Well, I had forgotten the switch so we could get her husband's machine on as >well. So, later in the day I returned and we put in the switch. Well, I >ran the speed test again... 1.2MEGABYTES PER SECOND download speed. I >had set it up with what I thought were really good settings... I THOUGHT >it was right. > >I just didn't realize that her old IMAC couldn't sustain more than 80KB/sec >downloads. No kidding. The hard drive thrashed visciously and that's all >it could do. > >Sometimes I forget... I know what I know, I know what I'm doing... Or, I >should. Man, trust what you know you know, self-doubt can really mess ya up >and waste your time. > > > > > > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
