Re: Display Occasionally Hangs with WIFI

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Author: Mark Phillips
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Display Occasionally Hangs with WIFI
On Monday 09 October 2006 06:05 pm, Dazed_75 wrote:
> No idea whether it relates to your problem or not, but I find my wifi signal
> strength seems to vary a lot for at least some clients.  My TiVo unit (20-25
> feet from the Linksys WRT54g) connects using a Netgear WG111 802.11g usb
> adapter and the Tivo reports signal strength varying widely over time.  When
> the strength shows low, transfer rates seem to go to hell probably due to
> errors.  OTOH, my Toshoba laptop with built-in wifi shows slightly varying,
> but consistently high, signal strength even form the other end of the house
> which is through two walls.
>
> Point is the variance in signal strength can also be the receiver and can
> definitely cause bad slowdowns or lags.


I have seen this as well, which is why I upgraded ndiswrapper to see if it
would help. It didn't.

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Mark Phillips
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