BW )(: Weird cyclical lag pinging access point

[Peter Ferne]

On 16 Jan 2008, at 17:57, Lloyd Cohen wrote:
> To me this looks suspiciously un-varied.  It repeats every 4-5s,  
> suggesting to me that there's an issue in the data layer...

Aha, that makes sense.

> You haven't said whether you've used more than one client - this  
> could be an issue with your laptop, or as you'd probably know about  
> it if it were broken more likely a conflict between the way it's  
> hardware and that within the router speak wireless protocol.

Hmm, it does only happen with my laptop. The other two, both also macs  
but different models get steady 1ms pings. My laptop is fine on the  
network at home (which uses an airport extreme as the AP).

> Does the Speedtouch thing have an ADSL input, or is the ADSL modem  
> seperate?  If you can, I'd dump the thing for a Linksys WRT54GL  
> ethernet/wireless router running latest OpenWRT Kamikaze.  In any  
> environment where the connection is heavily used by multiple people,  
> a combination of the traffic shaping/QoS within a new linux kernel  
> together with the customisations OpenWRT use to take advantage of  
> these features quickly make the thing worth it's £40 pricetag.

It is all in one so that might be a good idea.

Thanks Lloyd
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petef
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