Tom,
Very interesting suggestions. I will forward your suggestions to the
wifi contractor who has not yet had a chance to come to our site to
check out the problems. Would the interference just affect the
connection without affecting the signal strength? We do have some
welders in the building, kilns, and lots of microwaves. Because this
is an intermittent problem it might be impossible to figure out what
is happening. Next time my Macbook hangs I will see if anyone else is
having any problems and then check out the welders. An access point
which slows to the slowest connected device would be terrible. We do
have one artist with a very old mac laptop which only gets a
connection in a few locations. Of course, one artist called me today
to see if she could connect with an old win98 machine. I told her
that since she couldn't even use a usb modem on that machine that
she should think about a new computer instead.
Jul 15, 2009, at 7:48 PM, t.piwowar wrote:
On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:08 PM, cindy brandt wrote:
Am I wrong in assuming that the signal strength indicates that we
are getting the signal everywhere but the response time and the
lengthy hanging is another issue altogether? I know that some of
the problems with response time might be explained by one artist
uploading a large photo. Even on my Fios at home I sometimes have
a slow response time when I am the only user. But I have used
many wifi networks in hotels and elsewhere and don't ever remember
having this hanging problem which is only corrected by turning off
and on the wireless on my computer.
Since you are showing good signal strength I would put that
possibility aside and first look for external factors that can
disrupt the operation of your network. Survey the site looking for
sources of interference: a rogue access point, a microwave oven,
large electrical equipment, an artist using an arc welder, etc.
Another thing to look at is the capability of your access points to
handle different speeds. Some access points will drop down to the
speed of the slowest connected device. On such a network, just one
person connecting at the old 10MBPS speed would slow everybody down
to 10MBPS.
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