<rant>
I was flying to/fro the west coast this last fall and via LAX, I was amazed at
how great the signal was from T-Mobile hot-spots but how lousy it seemed to
work. I couldn't even load up the pages at T-mobile to stick it on my T-Mobile
account so I could use it!!
When I fired up netstumbler, low and behold, all the WAP's were on pretty much
2 channels.
Like, EVERYONE's WAP's in the terminal were on like 2 channels.
I think I counted like 16+ AP's all on channels 1 and 6 (or something like
that).
EVEN T-Mobile had more than 2 WAP's on the same 2 channels.
Last I checked, WAP's don't work so great when set up like that.. which
explained why I could start loading a web page at T-mobile's site, but then it
would sputter and eventually halt.
Maybe we wouldn't need a Hotspot 2.0 if Hotspot 1.0 was properly configured for
the area installed in.
And I don't bother calling companies when I can't use their products. Typically
the agent has no idea what I'm talking about and nothing happens as evident
when I check the same place multiple times and no changes are apparent.
</rant>
[ Sometimes these are just the defaults and never get changed.
Other times people take the advice of sticking to the three
non-overlapping 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi channels (in the U.S. - 1, 6, 11) a
bit too literally.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
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