[Cialug] wifi router

[Stuart Thiessen]

Is this like that fellow who thought his laptop was getting heavier the more he saved data on his hard drive? :-) I'm just curious. I never heard that about the signals. ??

On Jan 14, 2010, at 16:03 , jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:

> Then how do you explain why my ethernet lines don't way a couple dozen tons and crash through the floor?  Do the packets become weightless in copper?
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> Wow, the things you can learn on the Internet....
>  
> or....
>  
> "sure, that's funny... Until you hear your mom quoting it to her friends like she is Vint Cerf's assistant."
>  
> -Nate
> 
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:16 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] wifi router
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David McLaughlin <thorgrim at imaginarytower.org> wrote:
> I've had much better luck with range by placing the router as high as
> possible within the house.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> ;-)
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