{"id":88,"date":"2003-12-20T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T19:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/20\/todays-wifi-weather-forecast-cloudy\/"},"modified":"2003-12-20T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T19:55:31","slug":"todays-wifi-weather-forecast-cloudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/20\/todays-wifi-weather-forecast-cloudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s wifi weather forecast: Cloudy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s annoying that the one place in the house where I need a good Wifi signal (the living room couch) is the weakest spot in the house. It’s not like we live in a big house, either. It’s about 30 feet for the signal to travel, though it’s through two walls. I don’t know why, but today the signal is really bad and just keeps cutting in and out. It’s so bad, I’m writing this in notepad, with hopes that I’ll have a signal long enough to post this eventually. <\/p>\n

My first attempt at fixing this was upgrading from the Internet Connection Sharing from the Airport Card<\/A> I have in my G4 to a real router. Surely having a real router with a real antenna would make for a better signal. I got a SMC Barricade 7004VWBR<\/A> which is nice because it has all the firewall stuff in there and a switch, so I can connect my various machines to it. Unfortunately, it didn’t help the signal. I tried fiddling with the antennae, no luck there either.<\/p>\n

My second attempt was to buy a new PC card for my laptop. The one I had was an old Compaq one and was barely supported. So I bought a Netgear 802.11g<\/A> card (hey, why not). That seemed to work better at first, but overall I don’t think it’s made much of a difference. <\/p>\n

The weird thing is that some days it works fine, and other days it’s horrible. Our 2.4Ghz cordless phone<\/A> definitely interferes with it, but only when you’re talking on it. <\/p>\n

I’ve thought about trying to move my base station closer to the living room, but the wiring would be a nightmare. I guess my next step is to get an 802.11g router, so I can try to drown out whichever neighbor of mine who has a network called “river_rock”. Hey neighbor, my network is open, how about opening up yours so when you kill my signal, I’ll at least be able to surf!<\/p>\n

This wifi stuff sure is cool when it works, but it’s just got to get a lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s annoying that the one place in the house where I need a good Wifi signal (the living room couch) is the weakest spot in the house. It’s not like we live in a big house, either. It’s about 30 feet for the signal to travel, though it’s through two walls. I don’t know why, …<\/p>\n

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