From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 1840479 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:13:32 -0400 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:13:20 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: A bit Off Topic: Which WAP to go for? Message-ID: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:45:36 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >On 10/14/09 08:26 am, Howard Winter thus wrote : >> >> Oh, and there's a Starbucks next door with free WiFi (I know, >> he could just tell them to use that, but I don't think they'd be >> happy!) so preventing interference is going to be an issue. >> >> >That shouldn't be a problem. The DD-WRT firmware has a site survey >utility built in, and will show you what signals are floating around. >Just choose a non-overlapping channel (in the States, for B & G, we have >1, 6, and 11 which do not overlap; I believe your channels are a bit >different, as you should ahve available up to channel 14, IIRC). I've never considered 'channels' before. I assume I can go into the router setup and make a selection there. [I've just not tried to find where.] But, I did check the xWLAN Preferences. I see no place to select a 'channel' for the TPad radio to use. This discussion got me wondering if playing with 'channels' might resolve the 'flashing radio indicator' that has been bugging me for months? But, this also raises another question: If I can/need to set something on the TPad, what happens when I go to another site? Maybe these are just dummy questions that I should know. [But, it does keep it 'on topic' doesn't it? . . . ;-) . . .] -- TIA, Carl