Re: [71attendees] ietf71 wireless problems

I am having similar problems with a ThinkPad with a Intel(R)
PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter. 

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 71attendees-bounces@ietf.org 
> [mailto:71attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Rosen, Brian
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:22 PM
> To: Iljitsch van Beijnum; Michael Richardson
> Cc: 71attendees@ietf.org; mtd@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [71attendees] ietf71 wireless problems
> 
> I'm having the problem and I talked to the help desk.  They 
> have some newer APs, and they are having trouble with .11b.  
> Some devices are more sensitive than others.  Older Thinkpads 
> with older cards (mine is a T41 with a Cisco adapter that 
> doesn't seem to do .11a) are troublesome.
> 
> They do have people working on it.  It does work for me in 
> the terminal room.  If you can connect to the .11a network, 
> you won't have problems.
> 
> Brian
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 71attendees-bounces@ietf.org
> [mailto:71attendees-bounces@ietf.org]
> > On Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:55 PM
> > To: Michael Richardson
> > Cc: 71attendees@ietf.org; mtd@ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: [71attendees] ietf71 wireless problems
> > 
> > On 10 mrt 2008, at 10:56, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm having layer-2 problems with the wireless.
> > > (I will have to go plugin at the terminal room to send 
> this) I tried 
> > > most of Sunday to get online, but I never succeeded.  It is no 
> > > better this morning.
> > > I am sending this in the hope that I am not alone. Many 
> people can 
> > > online a bit, but get very poor performance, or are unable to stay
> on
> > > very long.  My case seems pathological.
> > 
> > > It looks like there are just too many APs to me.  My poor card
> doesn't
> > > stay associated to any one of them long enough to get any data 
> > > through.
> > 
> > > I am using an external orinoco 802.11b card "Lucent Technologies 
> > > GOLD", but I have similar experiences with cisco Aironet cards. 
> > > (Yes, this is a card from an ietf 40-something meeting).
> > 
> > It looks like the network is 802.11n (it tells me I'm 
> connected at 130 
> > Mbps), and in my (granted, limited) experience with 802.11n gear is 
> > that unlike 802.11g, it has no compunction about about stepping on 
> > 802.11b-hard.
> > 
> > Perhaps things would work better for last century's wifi 
> cards if 2.4 
> > GHz stuff is set to 802.11g. Or maybe not...
> > 
> > Iljitsch
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