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01-22-2010 03:17 AMrange of Wifi
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01-22-2010 03:19 AMit varies. that is pretty weird, typically personal wifi is just like around your house, sometimes your neighbors can pick it up, usually protected by WEP. you must have the type they use in like a mall where you get wifi.
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01-22-2010 03:27 AMThe FCC is looking for you.....
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01-22-2010 03:31 AMlol
Originally Posted by cb2000a
The FCC is looking for you.....
Its nothing great. just a normal Linksys 2.4 Ghz. I just tried to find out the max it will go and it ended up cutting out around 3.5 miles give or take. (using a trip metter on my car) wtf is going on? lol its never done this before. its kinda freaking me out b/c if this is correct, the range of my wifi is covering a few 100 ppl in that type of range. out of a few 100 your bound to get 1 that wants to mess with your stuff =) gona unplug it for a while and hope it goes away. I dont want or need that type or range -
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01-22-2010 03:38 AMWow that's crazy. Were you connected on 802.11n? Although I don't think even that has the range to cover a mile let alone 3.5
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01-22-2010 04:44 AMN is spec'ed at 850ft...3 miles?
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01-22-2010 05:24 AMgive or take. ya heh. it went away though, I pulled the plug, gave it a few, now it drops a few houses down. I have no clue what it was about and cant find any info online about someone else getting something like this happening to them Originally Posted by Backnblack
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01-22-2010 05:28 AMyou were most likely just on 3g and the icon and information had not refreshed itself making it look like you were still on wifi.
any router for the home your extremely lucky to get past the neighbors house with it still working. -
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01-22-2010 05:31 AMlol your 3 miles is insane. that's like 22nd century stuff,
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01-22-2010 08:21 AMAre you using something like locale and a cell tower to detect your location and setting wifi on?
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