From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.28]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1850051 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:37:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD60C65.5060601@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:37:41 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: A bit Off Topic: Which WAP to go for? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Carl... On 10/14/09 01:13 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : > 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. > > Clients don't select channels; AP's do. > 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? > > No, the channel selection would have nothing to do with this, as there ain't no such animal on a client device. > Maybe these are just dummy questions that I should know. [But, it does > keep it 'on topic' doesn't it? . . . ;-) . . .] > :-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------