[mythtv-users] RE: STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

Mark deJong dejongm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 16:33:46 EST 2005


>Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:26:24 +0100 (CET)
>From: Franco <mythtv at email.it>
>Subject: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Message-ID: <200512081526.jB8FQOq5008385 at localhost.localdomain>
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>
>Hello,
Hello Audience. Meet troll. Obviously a unwarranted plug.

>
>just wanted to tell everybody that now I have a working
>network at home so I can start experimenting with
>multiple frontend/backend configuration.
>
>PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI.
>
>Even though I had read a message of another user who was warning about
>terrible and useless struggling with it - I had to try it the same
>as I couldn't lay additional cables in my home.
>I just have to confirm that I have uselessly spent lot of
>time, money and blood and sleepless nights for more than one year
>without getting an usable network.
>
>At the end a friend suggested me the "devolo" adapter
>http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/mldlanhsethernet.html
>and it magically gave me a working WIRED network based on the existing
>electricity cables.
>
>Even though the claimed 85 Mbps are not met, I now have an honest
>WIRED network with a reliable, constant, robust actual 10+ Mbps throughput
>allowing me to to all I need.

>The 811.g wi-fi claimed 54 Mbps but actually resulted
>in less than 1 Mbps (in the best case) and was not reliable
>at all... the link was up for 5 seconds and then down for 30 seconds,
>when I was lucky!

>Hope this will save some people from the terrible pain that me,
>and others, have experimented.

>Franco


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