<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Josh More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net">morej@alliancetechnologies.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
CAT5 uses twisted pair to prevent the weight issues. WiFi can't.<br></blockquote><div><br>Hmm, the reasoning that I heard was different:<br>1. The faster you go, the quicker you'll escape Earth's gravity.<br>
2. When you escape Earth's gravity, you'll be weightless.<br><br>Therefore, the faster things go, the more weightless they become. Since packets travel faster on wires, the packets actually became weightless. Since wireless is slower, the packets aren't weightless.<br>
<br>:)<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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-Josh<br>
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From: "<a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com">jrnosee@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com">jrnosee@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: 10/1/14 16:04<br>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <<a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</a>><br>
Subj: Re: [Cialug] wifi router<br>
Then how do you explain why my ethernet lines don't way a couple dozen<br>
tons<br>
and crash through the floor? Do the packets become weightless in<br>
copper?<br>
<br>
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Nathan C. Smith<br>
<<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>>wrote:<br>
<br>
> Wow, the things you can learn on the Internet....<br>
><br>
> or....<br>
><br>
> "sure, that's funny... Until you hear your mom quoting it to her<br>
friends<br>
> like she is Vint Cerf's assistant."<br>
><br>
> -Nate<br>
><br>
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*On<br>
> Behalf Of *Matthew Nuzum<br>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:16 PM<br>
> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
> *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] wifi router<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David McLaughlin <<br>
> <a href="mailto:thorgrim@imaginarytower.org">thorgrim@imaginarytower.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I've had much better luck with range by placing the router as high as<br>
>> possible within the house.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> That's because the newer wifi signals are actually slightly heavier<br>
than<br>
> air so they fall down gradually after they're broadcast. Kind of like<br>
the<br>
> branches of a willow tree.<br>
><br>
> It works good for streaming video, which is download heavy, but if<br>
you're<br>
> actually sending a lot of packets you'll want your router to be below<br>
the<br>
> sending machine since it takes more strength to get the weighty<br>
packets up<br>
> to the router at a reasonable rate.<br>
><br>
> This is also why it's taken so long to get Internet access on<br>
airplanes. It<br>
> 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.<br>
For<br>
> example, twitter and web comic packets seem to have better range than,<br>
for<br>
> 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" target="_blank">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>
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