If you have a Linksys WiFi router, vertically mount the unit on the wall so the antennas and the rest of the unit is a flat plane. If your router doesn't have detachable antennas, get a router that does. Buy a higher-gain antenna set for your router. You should also use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer and/or configure Internet Explorer with safer default settings to reduce your exposure risk.īecause the above was a lot of information, I am going to summarize in bullet form with links to tools and articles. Of course, Microsoft and application vendors make it difficult to do properly. It is not a very good idea for most people to operate in that fashion. That's dangerous, even for someone like me who knows what they are doing. Like most people, they are running on their computers as administrator. Then we got onto the whole spyware/virus/cookie thing. I can't imagine my uncle, who is a semi-computer literate person in his 60s, trying to accomplish this. Of course, I suggested killing that WiFi repeater because even I have a problem configuring that thing. I suggested changing to either channel 1 or channel 11. Of course their access point was also running on channel 6. After we finished with that, I had iStumbler running and picked up a half dozen WiFi access points-most of them on channel 6. They really liked the FrontRow interface of the Mac. Later on, I had pulled out my MacBook to show some photos and videos I took with my various Nokia handsets. Still, antennas and orientation will work wonders. You know, the ones Linksys neutered so that it is difficult to flash third party firmware on them. Unfortunately, he has one of the newer WRT54GS units. The main reason for the third party firmware: the ability to adjust your transmit power to at least 50mW. 
I found that proper location of the WiFi router, hi-gain antennas, and third-party firmware such as DD-WRT resolved the vast majority of my issues. It's even worse when you are trying to use it with WPA. The Linksys WiFi repeater is particularly difficult to configure, since it has no Ethernet port. He was worried, rightfully so, about not having any of this secured. He had bought one of those WiFi repeaters that Linksys sells because he was having signal issues.
Apparently, my uncle had bought a Linksys WRT54GS and was trying to use his laptop in the living room. This time, I even gave them more than a few hours of notice that I was coming so I could see at least one of my cousins, whom complains she never gets to see me.Īnyway, after the usual discussions about my mom, the rest of the family, politics and religion, the conversation drifted into computers.
Being that I am in the Bay Area, and my Aunt and her kids live down in the Santa Cruz area, every once in a while I feel the need to go down there and see them.
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