What that really means is that you are likely running far too large of an antenna.
You're also going to find yourself interfering with your own network far more than is healthy with things that run this way! marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "MDK" <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:16 PM Subject: [WISPA] Is this a record of some kind? > This evening I was at one of my access points... one that has several > backhauls and various 2.4 and 5 ghz ap's at it. > > After I was done with my few minutes of doing things, I wanted to make > sure > I had not physically disconnected or accidentally unhooked anything > (messing > with the batteries, checking water levels, etc). I pulled out a > netbook. > Acer Aspire One to be precise, running windows xp, using the normal wifi > card it came with. I fired it up (it is set to "any" so it simply > associates to the access points that are open at home, work, etc), and > after > I was done, noted it said it was connected, at which point I opened google > on the browser to confirm connectivity. Google popped up, meaning things > were connected, and then I decided to run a speed test. I got about > 30KB/s > speed, which is like painfully slow. I was standing outside, with the > netbook sitting on the hood of my truck. > > So, I decided to see what it was associated to, and it was another access > point ... 11 MILES AWAY! I confirmed it by the SSID and by the ip dhcp > had assigned, as belonging to the ap 11 miles distant. > > It has no external antenna, just the one the factory built into the > netbook. > > I have detected, using netstumbler and the internal antenna on my laptop > (dell C610 and CM9 installed) access points over 24 miles away before, but > this is the longest, by far, I have been able to get a real connection, > dhcp > assignment, and transfer data. > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy > 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
