[PLUG] Temperature and routers...

Michael Robinson plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Thu Dec 10 02:49:23 UTC 2009


Some more info:

1:  It is roughly 71 feet from the sidewalk pad in front of the
    pump house to the cantenna hanging on the side of the next
    building.

2:  It is about 10' from the edge of the pad to where the linksys
    router is at.  Figure 15' to be safe.

3:  The straight line from AP to cantenna is probably around 72.5 to
    73'.

4:  It appears that the RealTek card on the Linux side likes to 
    disassociate itself from the AP.

5:  The well is in a seperate room in the pump house and the building
    is wood, so the wireless signal should have no problem traveling
    through the walls.

6:  Because of the well, it isn't practical to bury an underground
    Ethernet line between the pump house and the next building.  It
    isn't practical to run an aerial line either.

Before I think, oh I'll just go to Ebay and get a new wireless card
such as an Orinoco gold card, I want to know if I'm close enough to
get a good connection.  I'm also concerned that my Linksys router
in the pump house is flaky because I'm having trouble accessing the
web page on it.

Humidity is going to be problematic because the signal has to travel
through the open air between these buildings.  It might even be a 
problem inside the buildings themselves.




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