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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
802.11: To 'B' Or Not To 'B', That Is The Question
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I seem to do some of my best thinking when I'm exercising, and when I'm drifting off to sleep at night. As I mentioned yesterday, last weekend I switched my 802.11b-inclusive laptop's LAN connection from CAT5 to Wi-Fi. However, I remembered last night, mid-last week I'd reconfigured my Linksys WRT54GC router's wireless subsystem from 'mixed' mode to 'G-Only' (since, at the time, I wasn't using any 802.11b-inclusive gear). So the laptop shouldn't have been successful in connecting to the router...but it did, and in fact the connection's been stable and solid for the last three days.
Ideas why, folks? And should I switch the router back to 'mixed' mode, or leave well enough alone? ;-)
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at 10/31/2007 10:48:03 AM, Taylor Gautier said:
PEBKAC. J/K. Happy Halloween! ;-) Who knows. Router probably is still in mixed mode even though you said not to be. Or the B only laptop has some special hardware in it (unlikely). You sure you only have one router in the house? A speed test will tell you - I imagine you have a spare computer lying around to transfer a few files...
at 10/31/2007 11:02:37 AM, Brian Dipert said:
Dear Taylor, I only have two 802.11 broadcast beacons here, the router and an Airport Express access point (which is tethered to the router via a HomePlug AV spur), and I'd switched them both to 'g-only' mode. Very confusing!
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