Archive for May, 2007

Wifi Tip 2

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

You can also extend your wifi signal with a repeater or you can also wire it with a bridge. Frankly, I like bridging, I think its hot!

If you are still not receiving enough signal in the cellar? Having to be a ninja and sit on your window ledge to steal a connection from a neighbor’s router? What you need is a wireless signal repeater to give you greater coverage. You can convert your own router to do this.
If you have wired electronics that are too far from the wifi router that require a data connection, you would find a solution in a wireless bridge. It can be utilized to convert your wifi signal and give you plugs for your cabled devices too.

Wifi Tip 1

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

You can improve your range and coverage with better placement. There are multiple hardware hacks and qquite a few programs you can use to strengthen and broaden your wireless signal. There is also  some easy to do tunings you can perform to a standard wifi router to get even better range and strength.

bearing in mind that radio waves travel  out and down you wil want to put the router or access point up high. On top of a shelf or an upper floor would be best

If the angles that the signal needs to traverse are not steep and the signal doesnt need to pass through dense and thinck substance, this is obviously better. Things like fish tanks mirrors and metal work to distort your signal.

Keeping network devices far from other electronics that would cause interference would be ideal. Things like cordless phones, and monitors for infants, some microwaves, and even those bright halogen lamps can cause signal distortion.

Altering your default broadcast channel will avoid signal collision with nearby networks.

Considering a Posting Series

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Perhaps a posting series to allow me to rant on about subjects noone will say anything about. Still speculating on this.

Like for example, you go out to eat in  a fast food type restaraunt. Fine, you know what you are doing. But now you gotta sift through this healthy crap. Like this Atkins stuff starting appearing  on menus, “Blah is Atkins approved”.  I dont care! I went out to a fast food diner in order to get fast food, if I wanted this healthy nonsense, I would planta  garden and grow organic vegetables. Please for the love of go, get this healthy crap out of my face. And! If you are whining that places like Burger King do not have your much coveted “healthy food” , please shut your hole. No one goes into fast food joints and thinks they are going to lose weight. If you do, you deserve what you get.

Deal with it.

Pop Rocks and Soda

Friday, May 4th, 2007

No, in fact you will not explode if you eat Pop Rocks and drink quantities of soda. It was a myth that people thought that. There is simply not enough carbon dioxide produced.

Another myth popular at that time was that a car equipped with rockets would reach a speed of about 300 miles and hour and become airborne. tests were done to determine how realistic that is  and they were unable to reach 300 miles per hour and the car did not get airborne.

Still it is interesting.