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[Jim Ray <jim AT neuse.net>]

dear neophyte kevin,

your environment may differ from mine.  i live near ncsu and have 26,000 
students with wireless this, that and the other thing.  from a strict 
engineering perspective, signal interference is more culprit than 
anything and has little to do with one's skill in setting up wireless 
networks.  if signal interference occurs while using a web browser, the 
end user probably will not notice a problem.  if signal interference 
occurs while checking email, a POP lock may occur and cause the user to 
experience a problem.

you would probably be a happier person if you spent more time trying to 
help than hurt others.

regards,

jim

Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Network, Inc.

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Kevin Sonney wrote:

> On 1/27/06, Lance A. Brown <lance AT bearcircle.net> wrote:
>  
>
> > Would you care to elaborate on that?  "certain protocols like the ones
> > use for email"?  Like what: SMTP? IMAP? IMAPS?  POP? POPS?  Explain to
> > me how wireless messes them up.
> >    
>
> Jim can't, and wifi won't. Packets are packets, and aside from signal
> interference WiFi is perfectly reliable for home, office, or travel
> use. I know several large companies (Apple, RedHat, Cisco, and IBM for
> starters) who use Wifi extensively in their offices. Admittedly, they
> don't use WiFI for their servers, but in no way will wifi cause
> problems with the actual data protocols.
>
> Mr. Ray had a bad experience with WiFi. Since then he has consistently
> sold FUD about 802.11[a|b|g]. He has done it here, he has done it on
> other local mailing lists.
>
> I have been using WiFi for several years now. Aside from signal
> interference problems caused by non-compliant devices (2.4GhZ phones
> do NASTY things across the spectrum to maintain signals), I have not
> had data loss due to "protocol problems" on my WiFi. WiFi is perfectly
> reliable for small, medium, and large office use when set up
> correctly.
>
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