On Thursday 23 April 2015 09:15:55 Rick Lair wrote: > Good Morning All, > > Can anyone give me some pointers on what I should have in my > /etc/network/interfaces file to have my wireless be setup permanently > on my Debian Wheezy machine, I keep getting the authorization pop-up > to enter the password through out the day. I would rather go that > route than using the Network Manager utility. > > Or does this actually mean my wireless signal from the router could be > going in and out due to it's distance from the router? > > Rick
Distance, or local interference, Rick. How far away is the router? What else do you have locally (50 yards or so) that might be noisy in that frequency range? A leaky microwave oven perhaps? If so, that is way too much leakage for you to be around on a long term basis anyway, so fix or replace the microwave. If you can restrict it to the 5Ghz band, that would tend to reduce interference from that source, but it wouldn't stop a nearby neighbor with a high powered dual band router from breaking in occasionally. Distance is the real killer, the first mile is a -140 db path loss, considerable. But it is possible for a wifi router within 100 yards to cause a signal lock switch you need to recover from. I have other neighbors within that range, so I have disconnected the wifi router in my shop building after I found one of them using my bandwidth (I doubt they even knew it, you would generally have to turn off all the lights to see their bulb in a box of them) and have been using just a 5 port switch & hard wired connections now for about a year. Just Works(TM). Routing temp cat5 to the lappy is a pita though. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
