Wireless Conference Blogging

from the hopefully... dept

Just a quick note that over on the Techdirt Wireless site, we're going to be blogging what's happening today at the EyeForWireless conference. This, though, will depend on the status of the WiFi connection, which (so far) can best be described as... flakey.
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  1. identicon
    AMetamorphosis, 22 Apr 2004 @ 9:50am

    Generating traffic



    I just shot over to techdirt wireless to check it out. I bought a new lap top with a wifi card and need to educate myself on its use.

    I don't see much activity on the wireless site ? ! ? I think I saw maybe a total of 4 comments. What's up with this ?

    Are you posting this story here in order to generate some traffic ?

    PS. Thanks for a really informative site that despite my occasional disagreement with you, rocks.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 22 Apr 2004 @ 10:34am

    No Subject Given

    Seems kind of funny a wireless conference, can't even get their wireless network to function properly :-)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. icon
    Mike (profile), 22 Apr 2004 @ 10:47am

    Re: Generating traffic

    Nope. It was just a general announcement in case people here were interested in the news from the conference. The wireless site is much more focused on wireless industry folks as opposed to a general technology audience.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    colin, 22 Apr 2004 @ 11:02am

    Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end...

    You haven't put any info as to where the problem seems to be on/in their network, but if you think it's due to the signal between their AP and your laptop, you have to get one of these:
    http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/SenaoCard
    You can buy the EXT2 model (and 2 small antannas that just poke out 3 or so inches off it) at sites like netgate.com for about $110 US shipped. I'm doing some long-distance wireless stuff and the link quality/distance gain is huge with such a card. (Internal antenna version avail. too, cheaper)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. icon
    Mike (profile), 22 Apr 2004 @ 11:09am

    Re: Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end..

    Colin,

    Nope. I actually have one of those cards. The signal is strong, but it keeps kicking me (and others) out of the network, and making us log back in every few minutes.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  6. identicon
    MLO, 22 Apr 2004 @ 12:03pm

    Re: Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end..

    You're not running XP are you?

    There is a well known problem with XP's Zero Config wireless and certain wireless routers. If you hit up www.arstechnica.com, the article should be on the front page. If it isn't, do a search for "wireless"

    Hope that helps.

    MLO

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. icon
    Mike (profile), 22 Apr 2004 @ 5:34pm

    Re: Mike: if the wireless problem is at your end..

    The problem was with the wireless set up at the conference. The hotel apparently allocated much less than promised bandwidth, so the end result was twofold: (1) when you were on, it was damn slow (2) the system was *very* quick about kicking people off if you didn't send/receive any packets after a couple of minutes. So, just in the time it takes to write up a single post, I'd often get kicked off.

    It's always the wireless conferences that have the worst problems with wireless connectivity.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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