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On Monday 12 March 2007 09:32, Tom Potts wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 08:31, David Brook wrote: > > We have had very limited success with wireless LANS using soho components > > full stop. > > > > We have had issues with flakey connections, transfer rates and disastrous > > range restrictions. > > Strange thins do happen - I can get my 11b working with 60/92 in my living > room, as can a friend on her laptop but her boyfriends laptop wont connect > even if we tell it the channel/ssid etc, yet that works at a greater > distance outside. Mind you those people who advertise wireless and show > people working in the garden on a sunny day should be sued. Need a hood to > use mine on a sunny day which kinda defeats the object > > > This has occurred independently of the underlying OS being run by the > > network hosts. > > Another example - my daughters boyfriend just bought a new laptop with wireless built in. He bought a nice new wireless router to go with it and, being aware of the dangers, he set wpa-psk encryption up. The laptop cannot connect to the web if he uses the encryption at all! He brought the laptop here - we also use wpa-psk - and it works fine (once I entered the passkey etc). All 54g stuff, so not an issue there. So it seems not all wireless kit is compatible - which is stupid frankly. Interestingly, the rt2500 chipset driver I use for my own laptop works perfectly, yet the same card, when used on my wifes Windows laptop is quite flakey at times - regularly dropping the signal. We have several pcmcia cards and usb sticks which all respond the same - fine in Linux, hit and miss in the Redmond OS. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html