[CUWiN-Dev] Good News...

[Bill Comisky]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, David Young wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:05:46AM -0500, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just wanted to let folks know that I've spent the last 2.5+ hours online
>> from home using the Race St. wireless infrastructure -- I'm connected to
>> the WAP located at Nicole's, then to the node on her roof to Laura's down
>> the street and to Zach's before heading out to the Internet.  The
>> connection is pretty stable -- my ssh connection gets dropped 2-3
>> times/hour -- but it looks like some of those drops are due to our network,
>> and some due to problems in the outside internet (between 216.43.27.62 and
>> 64.198.100.85).  I've been able to download and upload my mail --
>> downloaded Google talk in about 10 seconds (900KB), etc. all without any
>> noticeable problems.  It would be good to figure out what's causing the
>> jitter that ends up dropping the SSH connections (whether it's a range
>> problem or a software one), but overall, this network is definitely usable
>> for the average Internet junkie.
>
> You may have spoken too soon. :-) Nicole's went away again.  It looks
> like an IBSS split.  Stupid Prism nodes.
>
> Dave

Any more thought to hard coding the BSSID?  We have some stupid Prism 
nodes too.  Do you see any downside?

bill


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