[kinda OT] home network speed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> Thanks for the info, I looked up the specs for 802.11 and found that
> what I should be expecting is around 22 Mb/s, so really not much more
> that I'm seeing now. From all of this, am I correct in assuming that I
> would be better off connecting the media drive to the network with a
> cable instead?

Wifi is great for being able to move a laptop around.  It totally sucks
for anything where you want reliable communications.  There are times
my network drops to 35KB/s (when I suspect a neighbour decides to use
the old crap 2.4GHz phone, given the problem always lasts about 1 to 10
minutes before going back to normal).

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Len Sorensen
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