Wireless
Dec 8, 2003
During the snow storm I noticed that my wireless network signal was awful. I fired up MacStumbler and, as I expected, I was getting interference from a neighbor’s access point. I changed my AP’s channel and updated my nodedb entry and checked the signal. Now I picked up a weak signal from a third AP. Walking around the apartment I picked up five 802.11b access points in addition to my own. I’ve listed it below:n
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Apt4D |
6 |
WEP |
Delta |
Cabrini |
8 |
No |
Linksys |
YAY |
6 |
WEP |
Linksys or Broadcom (probably WRT54G) |
Apt3J |
6 |
No |
Linksys |
nycwireless.net |
1 |
No |
Linksys |
linksys |
6 |
No |
Linksys |
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Interesting, no? Two years ago I walked the neighborhood and picked up only eight access points. Other than the folks who enabled WEP, but didn’t bother to chose a different channel, I wonder if the owners know they are transmitting well outside their apartment.