Re: WiFi: why not a diagram showing access points?

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On 02/16/2011 11:42 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 09:54 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 02/16/2011 07:56 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>> But I'm not in a built-up area.
>>>> I do see one other (hidden) network, but it is quite weak.
>>> As Patrick said, cordless phones can interfere.  Plus leaky microwave
>>> ovens, wireless home security equipment, gigaHertz video senders,
>>> lighting dimmers and switchmode power supplies.  Whilst the latter two
>>> don't, directly, work in the frequency range of WiFi, they can radiate
>>> an awful lot of hash that disrupts many things.
>> We often mention at the 802 wireless sessions (both 802.11 and 802.15)
>> how amazing it is that this stuff works at all!
> For quite a while I could see, from my home, 3 wireless networks, all
> on channel 6, all with SSID "Linksys", and all with decent signal strength.
> How that managed to work for those people I have no idea.

You could have been in the middle, seeing them, and they not seeing each 
other. The hidden node problem.

Or they just lived with things going blewy. Or they were all open so it 
did not matter which AP any of the used!


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