Interference more than distance, its only about 60 ft away, but in between that is a 60,000lb horizontal boring mill, 3 VMC's, and a 12 ft wide, 10ft tall finished parts rack, and it is inside the office, inside the server closet.
I have been thinking about slaving another wireless router centrally in the shop itself, off of the main wireless router in the office, we have 5 or 6 PC's randomly throughout the shop for programming, that all run off the wireless. Rick On 4/23/2015 9:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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 -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll & Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
