OP's post is not very useful. At best we can idly speculate.
1) What (specifically) makes the OP think it's actually a drop in transmission power? Is it ONLY the fact that replacing the unit makes it work "better"?
2) What has the OP done to diagnose/debug the old router? Has he/she (at the very least) tried different channels?
I've been using an ancient WRT54G for close to a decade, and have noticed no drop in performance. (Yes, the blue guy) I can cover a significant portion of my city block, at least 1-2 houses down the street either direction. I live in a somewhat dense neighborhood, so every year or two I have to change channels when a neighbor's network collides with mine until it works well again.
There is nobody you can completely trust. In fact, the idea of completely trusting anything or anyone doesn't even make sense.
You might trust your antivirus vendor to not maliciously plant viruses into your system, but you can be sure that they aren't out to make sure that their protection doesn't cost you as much as they can reasonably get out of somebody's back pocket. Further, if they didn't have that financial interest, they wouldn't have an interest in providing any kind of service to you at all.
Balancing trust, cost, and interests is the game you have to play in securing any position, not just your network.
Somehow, they're concluding that 90% of the power used in a datacenter is used for network adapters, switches, and routers? Something smells rather funny here...
Not that we're on topic or anything, but most of the money Romney donated to "charity" was to his church, which gives almost nothing to the poor, but spends an incredible amount of money to send their young members to knock on your door.
Think about that next time you answer the door and see them. Again.
Why not buy a broken camera from your local junk store and very visibly install it?
Came here to say this!
Years ago, I had a computer store, and wanted to cover my hindquarters - we had large, street-access store windows protecting lots of gorgeous, expensive hardware, but I couldn't afford a full-blown solution. So I found some mounting brackets at the hardware store and bought a large, gaudy 8 mm film camera at the local thrift store for $1. I bolted the camera to the mounting brackets, and stuffed a thick, black wire into the headphone jack and jammed it into a hole in the ceiling. It wasn't subtle; it was pointed right at you as you walked in the door.
Also, when I left for the night, I'd leave a computer running and run a tone generator to simulate the warning sound that an alarm makes for 30-60 seconds before it goes full derp.
For 4 years I ran that shop without a single incident. About 3 years in, I asked to get a quote from an actual security company, and the camera was good enough fool the consultant who came out to do the quote! Another time, I opened the store for a police officer in order to answer questions about some stolen hardware I'd identified, and he was also worried about the alarm going off. (from the tone generator) I showed him what I was doing and he laughed out loud.
Appearances can be deceiving and that's good enough in many (most?) cases. As a shining example of this: The TSA!
The question isn't "Can we build cars with that kind of economy?"...
The question is really "Can we build cars with that kind of economy that also meet required safety standards?". Because the truth is that American cars are much bigger, heavier, and generally safer than European cars. Numerous, (rather popular!) European cars that get excellent fuel economy (better than 40 MPG) simply cannot be imported because they'd miserably fail the crash tests.
To be sold in America, new cars must have a crash cage around the passenger compartment, around which are various crumple zones that absorb impact and improve passenger safety. Crash cages, by design, must be very strong in order to prevent passengers from getting crushed by stupid amounts of energy. This makes them heavy, and that makes it darn hard to get decent fuel economy, especially in stop & go traffic. (weight isn't nearly as much of a penalty on freeways, particularly on flat ground, though hills steep enough to require braking on the downhill runs can get rather inefficient rather quickly)
On the other hand, it's perfectly OK to sell motorcycles in the USA, which have a 1 inch thick helmet as a "crumple zone" and which are extremely dangerous - you are 5 times as likely to die in a mile of travel on a motorcycle as a normal passenger car. But people buy them, Harley Davidson is not going away. Why can't we have a class of car that's treated like a motorcycle, and let the market decide whether people prefer economy or safety?
to be fair, the study only shows the most recent likely successful reproduction, not the most recent sexual copulation.
All the DNA testing of ancestry in the world wouldn't uncover the amount of copulation that happened in private with a bar of soap or a piece of soft cotton. (ahem)
I worked on (and loved) a (then) ancient DEC 11/750, which was, hands down, the most robust, reliable computer I've ever worked on. Armed with 4 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk space (3x350-ish hard drives, each the size of a full dresser drawer) it managed to provide the needs of 30 or so staff in the 4-story building I worked in. This when a 386sx was considered some pretty hot stuff - the DEC had roughly the processing power of a 286.
I was fascinated by the thing, and worked closely with the techie they called in when things went south, just because I wanted to and my boss trusted me to do the right thing. (I generally did) It was so advanced, it would detect bad memory, and not only reallocate the memory via Virtual memory to another memory spot (and log it so you knew which memory was bad) but would also identify what occupied the memory that had gone bad and pull the relevant programming from disk and continue executing the program.
Once the A/C went out, and the room overheated, crashing the computer. It took most of a day to get the A/C fixed, and when it was fixed and the computer turned back on, all the programs that had been running when it died resumed working without a hitch, it had literally mapped all the memory to disk prior to shutdown.
I was stunned. Never before (or since) have I seen such bad-assedry in a computer system I had the pleasure of working on, even though I now design/maintain a fault-tolerant, redundant, load balanced distributed compute cluster for a living, with at least a million times the horsepower of that elegant, beautiful 11/750.
Except that if they don't process the requests, they are liable if, in fact, the material is infringing.
Far better still to counter sue for the full extent of costs for taking the content offline, including anticipated ad revenue as well as legal costs (including the $100 2 martini lunches) for suing for any and all claims that are bogus.
Posts like this one betray a fundamental lack of understanding at just how effective the legal system actually is.
Sure, it's not perfect, some people are found guilty, and it's no guarantee that people will behave, but when administered fairly, laws are a very effective solution to keeping the peace. I park my convertible downtown regularly with the understanding that although it's more vulnerable than other cars, and is more valuable than other cars, that the relative risk of theft is still rather low. Thanks to things like registration requirements, VIN numbers, and too many other obvious innovations to name, the reality is that cars, which are highly mobile, relatively vulnerable cachets of concentrated cash, are safe to own for average people because the actual risk of theft is so low.
Despite owning one for over 25 years, I've only once had a car stolen, and that was when I left it unattended in a parking lot in a bad part of Los Angeles for over 2 months.
The legal system is highly effective. If you don't believe me, go rob your nearest convenience store for $500 and see what happens.
Antennas most certainly do use power... when they transmit! Or did you all forget the fact that a cell phone is a two way device?!?
Crappy antennas use more power to broadcast successfully to the tower. When phones are further from the tower they amplify the signal more, and crappy antennas have a similar effect to being further from the tower.
OP needs to move his router to the middle of his house, at a high spot on the 2nd floor, maybe 3rd. When I had a 2 story house I put my g router at the top center of the 2nd floor, and not only got great reception all around the house, I got it all around the block.
Leaving your router on the floor under your desk is a great way to get lousy performance!
Why does anybody think that Meg Whitman has any skill whatsoever?
Despite having one of the best funded campaigns in history, she managed to lose California race for governor. Despite inheriting the reigns of eBay after a fantastically lucky growth streak, she managed to lose Billions of dollars on a badly botched "purchase" of Skype while managing to distract said company from its core competence: selling stuff. (she managed to buy Skype without buying any source code rights.... WTF?)
I have zero confidence in Meg Whitman as anything more than a charismatic charlatan with a lucky break. If I had money to spare, I'd short HP stock.
But the truth is that HTML/CSS is an extremely robust standard, one that works rather well in numerous environments for me TODAY such as my Linux Laptop, my Windows Laptop, my phone, and my tablet, and across multiple products. (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Android browser)
No standard is perfect. But teasing this standard is just silly - it's wildly successful!
I guess you aren't familiar with *cough* proxy servers *cough* which work just fine with SSL being very secure from the organization outward, but able to keep convenient logs of all traffic flowing in and out.
Combine with blocking outbound to 443 from all computers except the proxy. For the truly paranoid, a deep-packet-inspection firewall can be trivially configured to drop all SSL packets.
Problem (mostly) solved, for the sufficiently ethically compromised organization. Private smart phones represent a significant attack vector, forcing exotic techniques like a Faraday Cage, perhaps with special paint?
Or MetroPCS. I've been MetroPCS customers for years since I got tired of Verizon's (over)pricing games. Coverage is actually pretty good (in Nevada/California) the price is excellent, unlimited EVERYTHING for $50.
No, I have no affiliation other than being a happy customer. Customer service is almost non-existent, but we've never felt the need for it because it just works and the bill is (ahem) flat rate.
Also, contracts are month to month and if you are too late, your phone just stops working. When you pay the bill your phone starts working within an hour or so. There is no collections department.
I don't know a single person that doesn't bike because they have to wear a helmet.
Well, you just met him. Or rather, somebody who just doesn't wear a helmet. I exercise aggressively, every other day or so, and cycling is my most common form in summer months.
So we'll just let people get hit by cars until the cars stop being dumb?
Cash grab? How does this not describe any and all new TLDs?
Really, there's no reason why there couldn't be a consortium of TLDs in a peer/peer style where all TLDs are shared. In this scenario, I could create a TLD at random, pay the peering fees, and be in business.
There's no technical reason why there's a limit on TLDs other than convention, and the guys who've (almost accidentally) inherited the benefits of that convention. *cough* ICANN *cough*
I know two women well, my wife, and a family friend. My family friend got a credential attending Phoenix University, while my wife is getting the same credential attendance a California State University. The University my wife is attending is a mid-range school, nothing particularly special, and definitely not a first tier school.
The difference between the two is rather stark. Wife is easily passing exams for accreditation that Family Friend (a very sharp gal, mind you) struggles with, making multiple attempts at without passing. Family friend is frustrated and in debt, Wife is blazing through excitedly. (Still in debt, but it's pretty clear she'll be able to handle the debt load when out in the field)
My respect for the CSU system has risen dramatically, and my contempt for the college system has vanished. I still think that the combination of computer technology and education holds tremendous progress, but it's pretty clear to me that online-only learning is still a work in progress.
We should be using computers as a way of transferring information, as a richer replacement to textbooks, but teachers very clearly still need to be a robust part of the mix.
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Just use frosted glass, or perhaps white paper. Put a LCD projector behind it, and a transparent touch screen in front.
Next?
OP's post is not very useful. At best we can idly speculate.
1) What (specifically) makes the OP think it's actually a drop in transmission power? Is it ONLY the fact that replacing the unit makes it work "better"?
2) What has the OP done to diagnose/debug the old router? Has he/she (at the very least) tried different channels?
I've been using an ancient WRT54G for close to a decade, and have noticed no drop in performance. (Yes, the blue guy) I can cover a significant portion of my city block, at least 1-2 houses down the street either direction. I live in a somewhat dense neighborhood, so every year or two I have to change channels when a neighbor's network collides with mine until it works well again.
There is nobody you can completely trust. In fact, the idea of completely trusting anything or anyone doesn't even make sense.
You might trust your antivirus vendor to not maliciously plant viruses into your system, but you can be sure that they aren't out to make sure that their protection doesn't cost you as much as they can reasonably get out of somebody's back pocket. Further, if they didn't have that financial interest, they wouldn't have an interest in providing any kind of service to you at all.
Balancing trust, cost, and interests is the game you have to play in securing any position, not just your network.
Actually, since it's all online, they can't smack you in the ass without installing their USB robotic arm tool first.
Somehow, they're concluding that 90% of the power used in a datacenter is used for network adapters, switches, and routers? Something smells rather funny here...
Why does it strike me as ironic that your post is about typos, and your sig line is a kvetch about a common typo? Its like you meant it!
Not that we're on topic or anything, but most of the money Romney donated to "charity" was to his church, which gives almost nothing to the poor, but spends an incredible amount of money to send their young members to knock on your door.
Think about that next time you answer the door and see them. Again.
What happened to Technocrat.net? That was one of my favorites when it was up.
The definition of freedom includes your right to do things I don't agree with, up to the point where you actually prevent me from doing the same.
Why not buy a broken camera from your local junk store and very visibly install it?
Came here to say this!
Years ago, I had a computer store, and wanted to cover my hindquarters - we had large, street-access store windows protecting lots of gorgeous, expensive hardware, but I couldn't afford a full-blown solution. So I found some mounting brackets at the hardware store and bought a large, gaudy 8 mm film camera at the local thrift store for $1. I bolted the camera to the mounting brackets, and stuffed a thick, black wire into the headphone jack and jammed it into a hole in the ceiling. It wasn't subtle; it was pointed right at you as you walked in the door.
Also, when I left for the night, I'd leave a computer running and run a tone generator to simulate the warning sound that an alarm makes for 30-60 seconds before it goes full derp.
For 4 years I ran that shop without a single incident. About 3 years in, I asked to get a quote from an actual security company, and the camera was good enough fool the consultant who came out to do the quote! Another time, I opened the store for a police officer in order to answer questions about some stolen hardware I'd identified, and he was also worried about the alarm going off. (from the tone generator) I showed him what I was doing and he laughed out loud.
Appearances can be deceiving and that's good enough in many (most?) cases. As a shining example of this: The TSA!
The question isn't "Can we build cars with that kind of economy?"...
The question is really "Can we build cars with that kind of economy that also meet required safety standards? ". Because the truth is that American cars are much bigger, heavier, and generally safer than European cars. Numerous, (rather popular!) European cars that get excellent fuel economy (better than 40 MPG) simply cannot be imported because they'd miserably fail the crash tests.
To be sold in America, new cars must have a crash cage around the passenger compartment, around which are various crumple zones that absorb impact and improve passenger safety. Crash cages, by design, must be very strong in order to prevent passengers from getting crushed by stupid amounts of energy. This makes them heavy, and that makes it darn hard to get decent fuel economy, especially in stop & go traffic. (weight isn't nearly as much of a penalty on freeways, particularly on flat ground, though hills steep enough to require braking on the downhill runs can get rather inefficient rather quickly)
On the other hand, it's perfectly OK to sell motorcycles in the USA, which have a 1 inch thick helmet as a "crumple zone" and which are extremely dangerous - you are 5 times as likely to die in a mile of travel on a motorcycle as a normal passenger car. But people buy them, Harley Davidson is not going away. Why can't we have a class of car that's treated like a motorcycle, and let the market decide whether people prefer economy or safety?
to be fair, the study only shows the most recent likely successful reproduction, not the most recent sexual copulation.
All the DNA testing of ancestry in the world wouldn't uncover the amount of copulation that happened in private with a bar of soap or a piece of soft cotton. (ahem)
Ah, the DEC 11 series...
I worked on (and loved) a (then) ancient DEC 11/750, which was, hands down, the most robust, reliable computer I've ever worked on. Armed with 4 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk space (3x350-ish hard drives, each the size of a full dresser drawer) it managed to provide the needs of 30 or so staff in the 4-story building I worked in. This when a 386sx was considered some pretty hot stuff - the DEC had roughly the processing power of a 286.
I was fascinated by the thing, and worked closely with the techie they called in when things went south, just because I wanted to and my boss trusted me to do the right thing. (I generally did) It was so advanced, it would detect bad memory, and not only reallocate the memory via Virtual memory to another memory spot (and log it so you knew which memory was bad) but would also identify what occupied the memory that had gone bad and pull the relevant programming from disk and continue executing the program.
Once the A/C went out, and the room overheated, crashing the computer. It took most of a day to get the A/C fixed, and when it was fixed and the computer turned back on, all the programs that had been running when it died resumed working without a hitch, it had literally mapped all the memory to disk prior to shutdown.
I was stunned. Never before (or since) have I seen such bad-assedry in a computer system I had the pleasure of working on, even though I now design/maintain a fault-tolerant, redundant, load balanced distributed compute cluster for a living, with at least a million times the horsepower of that elegant, beautiful 11/750.
Except that if they don't process the requests, they are liable if, in fact, the material is infringing.
Far better still to counter sue for the full extent of costs for taking the content offline, including anticipated ad revenue as well as legal costs (including the $100 2 martini lunches) for suing for any and all claims that are bogus.
Find a technical solution, not a legal "solution"
Posts like this one betray a fundamental lack of understanding at just how effective the legal system actually is.
Sure, it's not perfect, some people are found guilty, and it's no guarantee that people will behave, but when administered fairly, laws are a very effective solution to keeping the peace. I park my convertible downtown regularly with the understanding that although it's more vulnerable than other cars, and is more valuable than other cars, that the relative risk of theft is still rather low. Thanks to things like registration requirements, VIN numbers, and too many other obvious innovations to name, the reality is that cars, which are highly mobile, relatively vulnerable cachets of concentrated cash, are safe to own for average people because the actual risk of theft is so low.
Despite owning one for over 25 years, I've only once had a car stolen, and that was when I left it unattended in a parking lot in a bad part of Los Angeles for over 2 months.
The legal system is highly effective. If you don't believe me, go rob your nearest convenience store for $500 and see what happens.
Huh?!
Antennas most certainly do use power... when they transmit! Or did you all forget the fact that a cell phone is a two way device?!?
Crappy antennas use more power to broadcast successfully to the tower. When phones are further from the tower they amplify the signal more, and crappy antennas have a similar effect to being further from the tower.
TURN IN YOUR GEEK CARD...sheesh!
OP needs to move his router to the middle of his house, at a high spot on the 2nd floor, maybe 3rd. When I had a 2 story house I put my g router at the top center of the 2nd floor, and not only got great reception all around the house, I got it all around the block.
Leaving your router on the floor under your desk is a great way to get lousy performance!
Why does anybody think that Meg Whitman has any skill whatsoever?
Despite having one of the best funded campaigns in history, she managed to lose California race for governor. Despite inheriting the reigns of eBay after a fantastically lucky growth streak, she managed to lose Billions of dollars on a badly botched "purchase" of Skype while managing to distract said company from its core competence: selling stuff. (she managed to buy Skype without buying any source code rights.... WTF?)
I have zero confidence in Meg Whitman as anything more than a charismatic charlatan with a lucky break. If I had money to spare, I'd short HP stock.
Yeah, funny, etc.
But the truth is that HTML/CSS is an extremely robust standard, one that works rather well in numerous environments for me TODAY such as my Linux Laptop, my Windows Laptop, my phone, and my tablet, and across multiple products. (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Android browser)
No standard is perfect. But teasing this standard is just silly - it's wildly successful!
I guess you aren't familiar with *cough* proxy servers *cough* which work just fine with SSL being very secure from the organization outward, but able to keep convenient logs of all traffic flowing in and out.
Combine with blocking outbound to 443 from all computers except the proxy. For the truly paranoid, a deep-packet-inspection firewall can be trivially configured to drop all SSL packets.
Problem (mostly) solved, for the sufficiently ethically compromised organization. Private smart phones represent a significant attack vector, forcing exotic techniques like a Faraday Cage, perhaps with special paint?
Came here to see this point made, was not disappoint.
Or MetroPCS. I've been MetroPCS customers for years since I got tired of Verizon's (over)pricing games. Coverage is actually pretty good (in Nevada/California) the price is excellent, unlimited EVERYTHING for $50.
No, I have no affiliation other than being a happy customer. Customer service is almost non-existent, but we've never felt the need for it because it just works and the bill is (ahem) flat rate.
Also, contracts are month to month and if you are too late, your phone just stops working. When you pay the bill your phone starts working within an hour or so. There is no collections department.
IMHO, this is cellular done right.
I don't know a single person that doesn't bike because they have to wear a helmet.
Well, you just met him. Or rather, somebody who just doesn't wear a helmet. I exercise aggressively, every other day or so, and cycling is my most common form in summer months.
So we'll just let people get hit by cars until the cars stop being dumb?
Sure. Or maybe progress shouldn't have a price, either? And, of course, the point: Helmets cause increases in head injuries and here's what increased ridership looks like.
There's scant good evidence that bike helmets do any good at all.
Cash grab? How does this not describe any and all new TLDs?
Really, there's no reason why there couldn't be a consortium of TLDs in a peer/peer style where all TLDs are shared. In this scenario, I could create a TLD at random, pay the peering fees, and be in business.
There's no technical reason why there's a limit on TLDs other than convention, and the guys who've (almost accidentally) inherited the benefits of that convention. *cough* ICANN *cough*
I know two women well, my wife, and a family friend. My family friend got a credential attending Phoenix University, while my wife is getting the same credential attendance a California State University. The University my wife is attending is a mid-range school, nothing particularly special, and definitely not a first tier school.
The difference between the two is rather stark. Wife is easily passing exams for accreditation that Family Friend (a very sharp gal, mind you) struggles with, making multiple attempts at without passing. Family friend is frustrated and in debt, Wife is blazing through excitedly. (Still in debt, but it's pretty clear she'll be able to handle the debt load when out in the field)
My respect for the CSU system has risen dramatically, and my contempt for the college system has vanished. I still think that the combination of computer technology and education holds tremendous progress, but it's pretty clear to me that online-only learning is still a work in progress.
We should be using computers as a way of transferring information, as a richer replacement to textbooks, but teachers very clearly still need to be a robust part of the mix.