[Cialug] wifi router

[Tim Wilson]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Josh More
<morej at alliancetechnologies.net>wrote:

> CAT5 uses twisted pair to prevent the weight issues.  WiFi can't.
>

Hmm, the reasoning that I heard was different:
1. The faster you go, the quicker you'll escape Earth's gravity.
2. When you escape Earth's gravity, you'll be weightless.

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.

:)


> -Josh
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> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "jrnosee at gmail.com" <jrnosee at gmail.com>
> Date: 10/1/14 16:04
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subj: Re: [Cialug] wifi router
> 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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