[AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations - question on wireless routers...

Tue Jul 4 06:06:14 PDT 2006

Hi Len,  Earlier I mentioned a third kind of router that I didn't remember 
the name of.  I just looked it up.  To my uninformed eyes it appears to be 
just a souped up 802.11 G but it might have some advantages.  It's called: 
Wireless 108G MIMO Router

Anyone familiar with that one?

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Rugen" <rugenl at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations - question on wireless 
routers...

> There are 3 wireless standards, A, B and G.  A is old and nearly obsolete. 
> G is upward compatable from B.  B is called 11Mbit, G is called 54Mbit. 
> There are some pushing G faster, I think using "furure" standards.  These 
> are good for a few 100 ft. or so indoors, 300 ft or more outdoors etc.  I 
> tried using wireless in various campgrounds and motels with mixed results. 
> In 2 cases, our "cheap" tent site was too far away, but a walk to the 
> laundry room solved that.  I've seen a lot of "wireless done wrong" to the 
> point of being unusable.  There is something else called WIMAX, which I 
> think is wireless broadband, more of oa community wide or cell-phone 
> service tha WI-FI.
>
> I would be carefull with outdoor antena's vs. lightning.... seriously. 
> I've seen K-12 schools have a lot of network damage thru ethernet cat-5 
> cable.  The wireless AP's weren't the problem in those case.  I'd try a 
> directional antenna hung under the eve or even inside a window facing the 
> barn.  I'd turn on NAT on a your wireless router, your ISP may not let you 
> have enough addresses for the printer and cameras.  Unless you want ANYONE 
> using your wireless, like someone said, hide it and maybe even turn on 
> security.  A good first step is to NOT broadcast your SSID, then you have 
> to tell each system the name of YOUR wireless network.
>
> I've been begging for some other choice of ISP, but there isn't one.  My 
> "spot" in wild blue is sold out, they have to launch another satelite 
> first.  I'm out of DSL range by a mile or more.  My dial-up connects at 
> about 24Kbit, but transfer is little more than half that because of the 
> number of users sharing the uplinks.
>
>
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> obsolete.  G is upward compatable from B.  B is called 
> 11Mbit, G is called 54Mbit.  There are some pushing 
> G faster, I think using "furure" standards.  These are good 
> for a few 100 ft. or so indoors, 300 ft or more outdoors etc.  I 
> tried using wireless in various campgrounds and motels with 
> mixed results.  In 2 cases, our "cheap" tent site was too far away, 
> but a walk to the laundry room solved that.  I've seen a lot of 
> "wireless done wrong" to the point of being unusable.  There is 
> something else called WIMAX, which I think is wireless 
> broadband, more of oa community wide or cell-phone service tha 
> WI-FI.    </DIV>
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> <DIV>I would be carefull with outdoor antena's vs. lightning.... 
> seriously.  I've seen K-12 schools have a lot of network damage 
> thru ethernet cat-5 cable.  The wireless AP's weren't the 
> problem in those case.  I'd try a directional antenna hung under the 
> eve or even inside a window facing the barn.  I'd turn on NAT on 
> a your wireless router, your ISP may not let you have enough addresses for 
> the printer and cameras.  Unless you want ANYONE using your wireless, 
> like someone said, hide it and maybe even turn on security.  A good 
> first step is to NOT broadcast your SSID, then you have to tell each 
> system the name of YOUR wireless network.  </DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV>I've been begging for some other choice of ISP, but there isn't 
> one.  My "spot" in wild blue is sold out, they have to launch another 
> satelite first.  I'm out of DSL range by a mile or more.  My 
> dial-up connects at about 24Kbit, but transfer is little more than half 
> that because of the number of users sharing the uplinks.  </DIV>
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