I have tried channel 1 (low end of the spectrum) and channel 11 (high end). They both seemed equally bad. Of course my WAP (an Airport base station) is less than 10 feet from the microwave. One of these days I will try moving it into a room other than the kitchen.
Microwave ovens also run in the 2.4 GHz range and they cause all kinds of 802.11 interference. At my house using the microwave kills my WLAN. Are they trying to get rid of my nuker too?
http://www.sun.com/products/sunray/whitepapers/s un ray1.scalability.wp.pdf
SunRays are huge network bandwidth hogs. I remember reading that you needed dedicated (no network traffic other than SunRay stuff) 100Mbit network segments, no more than 10 SunRays per segment. Seems like this would require a significant change of network architecture (unless you were designing this from scratch for a new site). For 500 SunRays you would need 50 100Mbit Network interfaces on the 4800 (MANY points of failure) or 5-10 Gbit NIC's and a bunch of switches. Forget about trying to run SunRays through a WAN.
Also, Sun tried this before with JavaStations and dumped the product. Is the SunRay here to stay?
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I have tried channel 1 (low end of the spectrum) and channel 11 (high end). They both seemed equally bad. Of course my WAP (an Airport base station) is less than 10 feet from the microwave. One of these days I will try moving it into a room other than the kitchen.
Microwave ovens also run in the 2.4 GHz range and they cause all kinds of 802.11 interference. At my house using the microwave kills my WLAN. Are they trying to get rid of my nuker too?
They even give you a deal on the linksys:
http://att.broadband.com/specials.htm
Only 80 bucks when you sign up.
Here is Sun's take on SunRay scalability:
s un ray1.scalability.wp.pdf
http://www.sun.com/products/sunray/whitepapers/
SunRays are huge network bandwidth hogs. I remember reading that you needed dedicated (no network traffic other than SunRay stuff) 100Mbit network segments, no more than 10 SunRays per segment. Seems like this would require a significant change of network architecture (unless you were designing this from scratch for a new site). For 500 SunRays you would need 50 100Mbit Network interfaces on the 4800 (MANY points of failure) or 5-10 Gbit NIC's and a bunch of switches. Forget about trying to run SunRays through a WAN.
Also, Sun tried this before with JavaStations and dumped the product. Is the SunRay here to stay?