Hi Tim,
On Friday 07 April 2006 20:35, Slattery, Tim - BLS Scribbled:
> > Similar experience here ! Next door has recently gotten wireless
> > Internet. If I am on his side of my van (Large Transit) I cannot
> > get the wireless key to lock the doors. On the other side its fine
> > !!
> >
> > Oddly enough one of the car parks next to the police station
> > has a large empty area. Very often you can see people with
> > the AA or RAC attending to people that cannot get their cars
> > to restart. It turns out that the interference from the
> > transmitter kills the engine management system !!
>
> Oh, yeah. Similar experience here, but not so drastic. I'd been using
> a wireless router at home, connecting to it from my laptop. A few
> months ago, I started being unable to connect. I could see it in the
> list of available access points, but I couldn't make a connection.
> The neighborhood computer shop let me borrow a new linksys router,
> which I set up pretty easily. Still couldn't make a connection. So I
> returned that, and brought home a new adapter for the laptop. Same
> thing. So I returned the adapter and bought a length of CAT5 cable.
> That works!
>
> More recently I got a nifty weather gadget for Christmas. This
> consists of a main unit with a large display that sits indoors where
> I can see it, and a remote unit that sits outdoors and transmits
> outdoor temp and humidity to the main unit, which then displays data
> for both outdoors and indoors. Nifty, until the indoor unit was
> unable to receive the outdoor unit's data.
Do you know you just lit the light !! My wife had been complaining
about the weather station outside temp & humidity readings vanishing
and returning, at random. I had put it down to "I'll change the
battery !" and not got round to doing it.
> A couple of weeks ago, the indoor unit found the outdoor unit again.
> I haven't done a thing. I suspect that somebody in my neighborhood
> (garden apartment-style condo) was emitting RF and has now stopped. I
> should try my wireless router again, maybe I can put that CAT5 away!4
>
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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