> ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO > because you didn't do and RESEARCH before trying your wifi network.
Well, 1-2 years ago, I researched and found the prism54 to be the recommended solution, so I went for that.... > Let me ask you this then. If wifi is so bad and has so many > disadvantages, why did you even try to use it as your first choice?? At the time I wasn't aware of other options (probably there weren't any) so it wasn't a choice... I HAD to :-) > It was the easiest thing in the system. I'm glad for you! :-) It wasn't my case > Everyone in the neighborhood > can see your computers huh? Ever heard of Mac address filtering and WEP > or WPA encryption? Your signal is too low? Did you EVER even consider > getting an external antenna that connects to the SMA connector on your > wireless card? I'm not concerned about the neighbourhood, I was answering to the objection of another poster... as to the antenna yes, I have spent money also on antennas with very low benefit (if any).... > Put a $10-$20 antenna > Put one router on floor 2 > put another router as a repeater on the floor with the weakest signal. Yes... buy, buy, buy... at the end, I found this other solution that was easier and cheaper and most of all gives a stable connection > For Christ's sake, I am absolutely amazed that you even got your mythtv > box up and running at all, someone who can't even do some simple > research and install a simple wireless network. I love you :-) > By the way I hate it when people send out emails with all caps subjects > telling the whole world to shun an entire industry because that person > was too inept to partake in it. You probably noticed. I was a bit uncertain about using an all caps subject, as I never do, but I thought that in this case I had to. :-) I had to acknowledge that when 1-2 years ago another poster warned everybody about his terrible pain and suffering with wi-fi, I had to listen him. Your solution - three wi-fi routers + special antennas + one wi-fi card for each computer - requires a certain budget. The other solution I've found is cheaper, more secure, gives a higher transfer rate, is stable and is also plug&play... why look for trouble? > FWIW I can play livetv/recordings over 802.11g to my laptop *but* only > reasonably reliably when I'm in the living room (which is also where the > 802.11g) wireless router is. That's what I am used to say. wi-fi works very well when the computers are in the same room, in which case it is very easy to run a cable! :-)
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