I have been using a wireless router which I bought in Japan more than four years ago. As you know, the standard and the quality of industrial products is strictly controlled in Japan. This wireless router is not the exception. Of course it works here in Canada, its power seems to be weaker than any other routers used in my neighbors. As I live in an apartment which has eight rooms on every floor, and most of the residents are using wireless routers, I sometimes have interference. This is the list of wireless connections in which my router is shown in the top, but its power gauge is only 4 of 5. There are two other routers with full gauge in the list. Though my router is within one meter from my note PC, it is weaker than those of other rooms. Since the new resident moved into my neighbor room, the influence of jamming has become more terrible. I have to re-connect or change channels almost every day. What a pain in the a**!
Yes, Microwaves reach far away than expected. When I made experiment on such a wireless LAN, I thought so. I thought that it could be used for espionage. ;-)
Koichi
Posted by: Koichi | December 25, 2006 at 06:45 AM