Don't think this got through on account of a 'From' address slightly diffenrent to one used to sign-up...
> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Mc Carthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 07 January, 2004 18:42 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: WET54G: problems + seeking antenna info > > > Hello and 'bonne annee' to you all. > > I'm attempting to share my AP (and so its internet > connection) with a neighbour who lives two floors and a small > courtyard away. Following a discussion on this list, he got > a Linksys WET54G to hook up to his Mac to connect to my RG-1000. > > At the moment the connection is intermittent and sloooow :( > > My neighbour got an OK (but slow) connection for four hours > or so yesterday, but then it died. When I was helping him > set up the connection at the w/e, the cnx kept coming and > going. I set transmission to 1 Mbps instead of auto; I would > have set the channel but could not find a way to do this. > When I returned to my apartment afterwards, I noticed that > I'd left my laptop constantly pinging the WET54 (for 45 > minutes or so), and that about 25% were lost. > > 1. can anyone confirm that the antenna connection is the same > as for the WET11? I found some info on some French pages > about hacking together a cantenna, but want to make sure the > connections are the same before printing it out for my neighbour :) > > 2. can anyone recommend an OK-but-cheap antenna for this > model? We'd prefer to roll our own antenna, but might not be > capable (my neighbour seems pretty handy, but I'm useless!). > > 3. can anyone explain (in layman's terms) why the WET54's > connection, when it works, is so slow (e.g. to load Yahoo's > homepage) compared to my laptop. I know the WET54 is farther > away, does it make that much difference? I thought the speed > of sound was pretty fast ;) > > If anyone has any other ideas, I'm all ears. > > Cheers > > Chris > > P.s. WEP is enabled and working... > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
