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 Posted: Sun Apr 11th, 2010 02:18 pm
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 If a customer comes to you complaining of slowness, they have Vista and less than 2g of ram... cure that first.
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 Posted: Mon Apr 12th, 2010 01:46 am
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 " I just don't understand it, Reg - this old Pentium with 512MB ran Windows 98 and XP fine...."
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 Posted: Mon Apr 12th, 2010 04:10 am
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 Lesson 2. If you turn DHCP on at your wireless router momentarily to test a customers laptop, every person within a half mile range will latch on to your network including Ipods and Nintendo DS's.
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 Posted: Mon Apr 12th, 2010 04:57 am
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 Jim wrote: Lesson 2. If you turn DHCP on at your wireless router momentarily to test a customers laptop, every person within a half mile range will latch on to your network including Ipods and Nintendo DS's.
I to learned this... :whatever:
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 Posted: Mon Apr 12th, 2010 07:33 am
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 What is it that determines the strength of your wi-fi signal then?
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 Posted: Mon Apr 12th, 2010 08:19 pm
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 Robert wrote: What is it that determines the strength of your wi-fi signal then?
Probably hothe number of Nintendos and ipods latch on to it. ;)
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 Posted: Tue Apr 13th, 2010 06:20 am
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 LOL

Bob there are SOOOO many factors, type of wireless router, mods to the router, antenna length, proximity to receiver, building structure.... there is no one single factor that determines strength.
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