do you have one of those little wireless hotspot detectors? or is the hotel fully wireless and it doesn't matter where you are?

yes it is fast, although I'll never go wireless. I've just added a load of new-gen wireless stuff to the product list, but myself i don't trust it. nothing as safe and secure as a cable.

I know Esq agrees with me

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Fully wireless at my place, (although our root server is wired) but everything is wep encypted and is just as secure as anything else.

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Ive got Wireless on my Centrino Notebook upstairs, dotn have a WAP here, but im gonna have plenty of use in 1.5 weeks at school, there getting wireless installed, so i wont have to keep stealing thier Cat5 cables to jack in...
thing is, ill have to share it with the Junior school and the Chirch when they are online...

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nothing as safe and secure as a cable.

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I'm going to sick Z on you so you can see first hand how vulnerable *cough* cable *hack* really is.

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well, ok, it's safe and secure...in my house!

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Edited by - Tawakalna on 9/22/2004 11:17:41 AM

As usual I'm with Taw (surprise, surprise ). You would not believe the unsecured LANs that you can "sniff" just by walking around a capital city with a wireless-equipped laptop *shakes head in disgust*. Sure, you lose some speed through encryption, but it is necessary. Some IT-types are just lazy I guess. In any case, wireless is relatively secure, as long as you use 128-bit WEP *and* set the LAN up to respond to specific IPs .

By the way, 802.11g *is* fast, but it's maximum throughput is 54mbps I think. Cable is much faster (of course).

@Taw

No real hot spot issues. The whole building is pretty much wireless. Some oddballs are setup at the bar drinking and presumably doing work on their laptops. I think they're just dorks trying a new way to score a pickup but that's just me..... er, as I was passing by the bar I noticed this at a glance... that is....

In my room, there seems to be a dead area in one corner of the room but it is the corner next to all the plumbing in the bathroom and not really a good place to work anyway.... yes, I wandered around the room to see how wireless I really was.... pretty good wireless I must say.

Cabled network is, of course, faster. But for a wireless setup, this is one is pretty impressive imo.

It basically depends on how many WAP's you have and how many people are using them, if youve got one, thats 54MBps, not per user, TOTAL! that means, if youve got 10 users using wireless on the same WAP, your down to 5.6 already...
only good thing is you dont have to be near a net port...

Well I guess I am either the only one on my floor or whatever on the wap because response-wise, it pretty much is as fast as my ADSL, maybe just a smidge slower.

*Sniff* Stop shoving your ADSL connection in my face Indy! *Sob*

is ADSL faster than Cable?

wolfy says (with smirk on his face) "one of these days i will get a T1 connection.....muahahahahaha...muahahahahahaha...MAUHAHAHAHAHA"

From what I've seen with friends of mine who have cable, cable seems to be faster most of the time. Sometimes, it seems slower. I'm not sure but cable seems to be more sensitive to traffic. I don't know for sure. I think you get more broadband for the buck with cable. But my ADSL service is about roll out a new pricing plan so I guess things will equalize again.

cable is sometimes faster sometimes slower than comparable dsl because of contention ratios, ie how many people are on the local *pipe* at any one time. Cable signals although fibre-optic transported share that f/o with televison and telephone signals, which at peak times can lead to a much slower connection than you expect. However, most cable companies offer only a 20-1 CR, meaning that its shared with 20 other people max, whereas dsl can be shared with up to 50 other people which isn't good. But dsl uses "spare" bandwidth on your phone line and phone lines really only ever get used for, erm well, telephony.

Stinger rates dsl much more highly than cable; of late I'm beginning to agree, my cable connection really sucks donkey's @ss at the moment, it used to be hot, now it's not.

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Stinger rates dsl much more highly than cable; of late I'm beginning to agree, my cable connection really sucks donkey's @ss at the moment, it used to be hot, now it's not.

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DSL is a dedicated line, cable is not. No one is using my bandwidth but me. This is the major difference between (A)DSL and cable. Sustained bandwidth is something cable will never be able to advertise as a feature.

I'll be the first to admit comparable cable (apples to apples on price) can be faster at times than DSL. But over the long haul DSL is the same every minute of every day which is why DSL is by design better to running servers that others tap into.

I just recently upgraded my DSL level that 2 years ago would have cost me 10 times as much. Cable is the same price it was two years ago. Do the math.