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Sluggish WiFi Connections Hurt Everyone
MindNumbingOblivion writes "Wireless technology has revolutionized access to local area networks when one can't always be close to an ethernet jack. But a recent research paper from the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique tells how one slow user accessing a hot point can hurt the whole group. Apparently the very nature of CSMA/CD guarantees such anomalies. Here's the story, and here's the release from CNRS (in French)."
Could this be a first post for Niles? YES! Yes it could!
Or maybe not, but hopefully.
There is an interesting follow-up thread in the Tubgirl's Tech Center's message boards. Check it out.
he buzzes like a fridge,
he's like a detuned radio.
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"Centre" is male, therefore "National" isn't suffixed with an "e". Learn French: you'll get your genders straight, which is the first step before you can date the opposite sex!
I tried to read it, but it was too god damn cowardly to make out.
Thats what you get for trusting some damn white flagger.
Anyways, hows about we drop a few on France, show them what its really like to lose a war. Then they'll stop complaining, along with everyone else.
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make baby Jesus cry.
-- Dr. Fu Ling-Yu, Internal Technology Consult; Tongji University, People Republic of China.
Making me feel ill,
And we have crashed her party.
Just install switches instead of hubs. Kiss CSMA/CD collision issues goodbye with a dedicated switch port for every system/device.
In days past, it was cost prohibitive to do this, but with cheap switches these days, why not? I run a switched net at home, not that I really need to, but if I happen to be doing a 2 gig file copy from one box to another, at least I can surf the net without any slowdowns.
My Dear,
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After a discreet but thorough investigation
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servant, we are not allowed to operate a foreign
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(+228902-6091)
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA LOME-TOGO
So, as long as MS has businesses in their back pocket, they've got little need to worry about competing with free, as in freedom, software.
<a href="http://www.joblessjimmy.com">Work is dumb and so is Jobless Jimmy.</a>
and nasa just forgot to convert metric to english units. oh whoops. millions of tax payer dollars down the toilet.