Re: Wireless networking

  • From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:29:29 -0400

It's not that hard to find an access point that's wireless, they're all over 
the place but the router is the preferred way for obvious reasons.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: Wireless networking


> Yes, you can, although I bet it's hard to find a wireless access point
> that isn't also a router, so you'll probably end up with a router into a
> router.
>
> Lots of good friendly folks are on the news group alt.internet.wireless
> to help you out with setting one up, if you want it done properly so
> it's safe and private it is a bit of a bother compared to a wired
> network.  If you're doing it to allow notebooks to roam around the house
> it's worth it, but just to avoid paying to have a wire drop run, I don't
> think so, I'd run the wire drop.  If you have a lot of wire drops to be
> run, so that the cost is very high, then it's worth doing I guess.
>
> I've got one at home, and I'd guess half of the problems I have in
> accessing the internet end up being because of the wifi portion of the
> network in one way or another; and of course, it is *much* slower as a
> LAN within your house than a wired network, and since my cable provider
> just went up to 3mb in download speed, the wifi link is now the
> bottleneck when downloading something large.
>
> Hth,
>
> Chip
>
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
>> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ralph Supernaw
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:29 PM
>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Wireless networking
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>> Hi,
>>=20
>> I am getting ready to move my computer to a room in our house=20
>> that does not have a line for our DSL network.  Before I=20
>> start crawling around under the house to string one, I wanted=20
>> to find out what your experience has been with wireless=20
>> network solutions.  Can I have a wireless setup connected=20
>> into my existing router?
>>=20
>> Thanks,
>> Ralph
>>=20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>> Behalf Of Sun Sparkle
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:53 AM
>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: mouse over links
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>> why not enter on the mouse over link to see what happens?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: mouse over links
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>> > David,
>> > I'm not trying to attack you but in the earlier thread you=20
>> mentioned=20
>> > yourself that more times than not there are no changes made to the=20
>> > page even when there are mouseover links, and this has=20
>> played out in=20
>> > what few web sites that I have found mouseover links on=20
>> because when I=20
>> > hit ctrl-enter on any of them the page has not changed.  Because of=20
>> > that, and this is just one person's opinion, I'd rather not=20
>> hear Jaws=20
>> > say mouseover link if there's going to be no change, so=20
>> until there is=20
>> > a good reason to have this feature turned on I am disabling it.
>> > Troy
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 10/27/2004 08:07 AM, david poehlman said:
>> > >yes, but it was exaustively discussed a few days ago.
>> > >
>> > >Johnnie Apple Seed
>> > >
>> > >----- Original Message -----
>> > >From: "Bruce Toews" <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
>> > >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:51 AM
>> > >Subject: Re: mouse over links
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >Yes, but you know what was meant by the question.
>> > >
>> > >Bruce
>> > >
>> > >--
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>> > >On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, david poehlman wrote:
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>> > > > it is not possible to turn off the mouse over links.
>> > > >
>> > > > Johnnie Apple Seed
>> > > >
>> > > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > > From: <alleyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:44 PM
>> > > > Subject: mouse over links
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > How do you turn off the mouse over links
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