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color=#0000ff size=2>"sure, that's funny... Until you hear your mom quoting it
to her friends like she is Vint Cerf's assistant."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Matthew
Nuzum<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:16 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Central Iowa Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Cialug] wifi
router<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David McLaughlin
<SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:thorgrim@imaginarytower.org">thorgrim@imaginarytower.org</A>></SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I've
had much better luck with range by placing the router as high as<BR>possible
within the house.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR clear=all>That's because the newer
wifi signals are actually slightly heavier than air so they fall down
gradually after they're broadcast. Kind of like the branches of a willow
tree.<BR><BR>It works good for streaming video, which is download heavy, but
if you're actually sending a lot of packets you'll want your router to be
below the sending machine since it takes more strength to get the weighty
packets up to the router at a reasonable rate.<BR><BR>This is also why it's
taken so long to get Internet access on airplanes. It takes an incredible
amount of energy to get the packets up that high.<BR><BR>There's also been
evidence that some packets are heavier than others. For example, twitter and
web comic packets seem to have better range than, for example, a web page from
the Mayo Clinic or the Wall Street Journal.<BR><BR>;-)<BR><BR>-- <BR>Matthew
Nuzum<BR>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <A
href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</A> and twitter<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>