Registered User wrote in
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:04:13 -0500, moronsbegone
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Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way
:-(

Could the relationship between time and distance problem be
impacting performance? Every other influencing parameter
appears to be a constant. Lengthening the timeout on your
end might provide a solution.

I appreciate the reply, it seems my Alfa ½ watt [bs-rating=
1/10 watt] is making the grade with 4 access points reliably
so it's just the little boy ego in me that seems spoiled when
110 access points are showing up and only a handful can hear
me. Then again it's real crowded here and channel bleeding or
some other 'Over crowded' phenomenon is dissing my male ego. I
sort of feel like a dumb truck driver running 1500 watts to
talk to the driver behind me! In respect to the industry and
moral conscience I do not want to splatter my neighbors with a
gazillion watts and make their 5 bar connections slow because
of me and rf or binary packet splatter/collisions. You guys
know so much more then I it isn't funny, don't want to sound
like a moron but this "Dish" theory is a hidden treasure right
under everyone's nose and it amazes me that just putting a
retired Dish Network disk 13" behind the Alfa USB WiFi with
the 3 DB gain Vertical ground antenna on it gives me a 5 bar
signal from what used to be a 1. The reason I am picking on
this one AP is that I have the owners blessing to use it, so
why not focus on the legal one. Sure I am willing to hack a
stranger's one if I have to, but here is a case where I don't,
so I won't. But up till now his signal was week, now it's
good, but experimenting with the other unsecured AP's there
are some that are 3 bars and can not get a handshake for more
then 10 seconds at 1 MBPS
Then PWAffffffft!!! I am bumped off then on then off then on…
Weird I say.
But it has all the symptoms of an Elephant base station, all
ears no mouth, and I am Irish I don't take custom to things
that way, generally the other way around LoL.
But I don't want to be a CB Rambo moron and ruin it for
everyone else; I am on line at a steady 54 MBPS right now so
why bother. Just Ego I guess or interest in the science maybe.
By the way the Dish is Indoors!!! I used to be a HAM, tech
license but let it laps years ago. I can't stand the FCC's
attitude. Somewhere in the registry setting I can set the
"TimeToLive" string to 128 ms is that what you mean?
I know IP stuff [it's my dreaded job] but the microwave stuff
you guys smoke me.