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Geek Evening
Oct. 26th, 2007 10:43 pmEven though my mother is visiting from Holland for a few days, I managed to steal a few hours to spend on geek stuff. So today I installed my new Apple toys - the new wireless base station and the new OS release.
I'm somewhat annoyed by the need for a new base station. The old one (802.11G) works just fine, and would continue to be perfect if it weren't for the fact that over 15 of my neighbors also have a wireless network. The resulting interference causes continual drop-outs and slow connections even to other computers in my apartment.
The new base station does 802.11N in addition to G. This is a different frequency range that is, as yet, lightly used - so the N capable laptops will no longer have interference. My older computers, and the yet-to-be-purchased iPhones, are not N capable and will have to suffer. Sigh.
One of my colleagues downgraded his GF's computer to the outdated 802.11A technology. Nobody seems to be using that frequency and it's still faster than her Internet connection. She clearly lives in a building with even more wireless networks than I do.
Let's see how this technology progresses in the next few years. The next time I have to rewire speakers or similar in this apartment I'm putting in Ethernet just in case :-)
I'm somewhat annoyed by the need for a new base station. The old one (802.11G) works just fine, and would continue to be perfect if it weren't for the fact that over 15 of my neighbors also have a wireless network. The resulting interference causes continual drop-outs and slow connections even to other computers in my apartment.
The new base station does 802.11N in addition to G. This is a different frequency range that is, as yet, lightly used - so the N capable laptops will no longer have interference. My older computers, and the yet-to-be-purchased iPhones, are not N capable and will have to suffer. Sigh.
One of my colleagues downgraded his GF's computer to the outdated 802.11A technology. Nobody seems to be using that frequency and it's still faster than her Internet connection. She clearly lives in a building with even more wireless networks than I do.
Let's see how this technology progresses in the next few years. The next time I have to rewire speakers or similar in this apartment I'm putting in Ethernet just in case :-)
