F’king microwaves, my WiFi drops like once every 5 minutes… Stainless appliances look nice but they leak like crazy… My D-Link thing from Amazon (what a deal for $21 after MIR!) should be here early next week and I’ll go old school and use ethernet, at least when I’m in the study…
HD TiVo soon, very very nice! Now let’s hope the truly high-res plasma prices will come down when they start shipping HD TiVo’s… 🙂
TiVo announces Series 3 HD TiVo, due this year – Engadget
TiVo just announced their TiVo Series 3 HD Digital Media Recorder, with dual HD recording and 300 hours of recording space. The device supports dual CableCARDs, of the 2.0 or 1.0 a variety, so either way you can get dual signals, with one 2.0 card or two 1.0 cards.
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According to this thread all CA is getting 6Mbps since 12/13/05. I’ve restarted my modem since then a few times, my broadband was down for the entire day of 12/31!! I haven’t noticed the speed bump though, but will run a speed test tonight to find out…
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I cannot believe a publication like Fortune had articles that contain blatantly incorrect information. Senior editor Peter H Lewis should’ve at least consulted Wikipedia (here and here) before he wrote this article.
Risk of upgrading your WiFi devices now is minimal – Jan. 3, 2006
You may already see wireless network devices on the shelves marked “pre-n,” and for most people the risk of buying now is minimal.
Two dozen of the top network equipment makers have agreed to align behind the 11n specs, and even if changes occur between now and formal ratification, it’s likely that the hardware you buy today can be upgraded easily with a software download.
The first WiFi devices were based on a 10-megabit-per-second 802.11b
standard. Then came 11g, with a theoretical top data transfer speed of
54 megabits per second. (In practice, consumers rarely saw such speeds,
and 20 mbps to 25 mbps is about average.) Another variant, 802.11a,
intended for moving video over short distances, also took hold.
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Now we’re talking, I’ll definitely be interested in one of these. When WiFi gets even more pervasive, we might even be able to ditch our cellphones for WiFi Skype phones.
Press Release Detail – NETGEAR
Unlike other devices that must connect with a PC, NETGEAR?s Skype WiFi phone will work wherever a consumer is connected to a wireless Internet access point ? be that in a home, office, cafe, open public hotspot, or any open municipal wireless access point being deployed worldwide.
Music still drops, I’m going to pick up a router+switch with ethernet ports and do AirTunes over ethernet instead… Not sure which router to get though, there is this Linksys “Wireless-G Cable Gateway” that is a cable modem, .g AP, and ethernet switch, all-in-one… might get that coz I think Comcast will start charging me $5/month for my cable modem soon…
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Damn, I’m downloading this right now as I type, maybe this would fix my AE audio dropping issue, but somehow I highly doubt it, because I think the problem is microwaves interfering with the WiFi as they both use the ISM band…
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
Apple and their engineers do seem to have been reading the endless posts on their support forums about dropping Airport Express audio streams and other issues. Tonight, they’ve released two firmware updates–one for the Express (v6.3) and one for the Extreme (v5.7)–that claim to address this and other issues.I’ve updated the base stations in my WDS network and the only issue I was having–dropped streaming audio–hasn’t recurred, so tentatively, I’ll say it’s been a successful update.
The Flickrization of Yahoo! – December 1, 2005
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I finally figured out the cause of my WiFi dropping once in a while; microwave. When I or any of my neighbors use our super powerful GE stainless steel microwave, my WiFi deteriorate so bad that I can’t even load a web page. (and AirTunes just pauses and it might or might not resume, depending on how long it takes to cook the shit in the microwave ;))… Maybe I’ll finally get a old-fashion router+switch, my place is pre-wired, but I just didn’t feel like having a wire… switching to 802.11a isn’t really an option, having an extra pc card as bad as plugging in a cable…
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