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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Geoff Pearson wrote:

The OP might not care about the radio ham next door. In fact he might
regard him as an abomination to be avoided at all costs.

Bill

I have been a licensed radio amateur since 1968: GM8BHR.

Geoff

And does your neighbour regard you as an abomination? Do you covet his
wife, anything like that?

Bill

Bill, sorry no. I am homosexual and fancy my neighbour too much to even
look at his wife.

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 23:00:04 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

I think my laptop says that that it links to my wireless router at
54Mb/s, so a booster would cut this to 27Mb/s.

It may indicate it has connected at those speeds, but try transferring
a few large files between computers and measuring the transfer speed
you actually get.

As you point out, this isn't important if it's a lot faster than your
internet speed and internet access is the main use, but it might be a
consideration if you want to transfer files between local devices,
such as to and from a network backup drive.

Rod.

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Geoff Pearson wrote:

And does your neighbour regard you as an abomination? Do you covet his
wife, anything like that?

Bill

Bill, sorry no. I am homosexual and fancy my neighbour too much to even
look at his wife.

Oh well, I guess that counts. Strewth, I found myself looking admiringly
at a lass this morning and realised that I am FOUR TIMES her age!
Actually I shouldn't have even been thinking such thoughts (even though
I swear my appreciation of the girl was purely aesthetic) because this
was in church, at a funeral. But the vicar was in maximum drone mode. I
considered having a look at the news or whatever on my phone but thought
it might cause disapproval.

I did intend to have a picture taken of me in a collar and tie and suit,
and put it on dropbox for you all to laugh at. I was going to caption it
'Up before the beak?' but I forgot and now I've got changed.

On the way out of the crematorium I think someone had left their
handbrake on. I said, 'That's a horrible smell!'.

Hil said, 'It must be Joan.'

At the bunfight afterwards the sixteen-year-old had changed into a very
pretty dress. I complimented her on it.

Bill

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On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 3:22:34 PM UTC, Geoff Pearson wrote:
My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my study. The wi-fi

from that reaches all parts of the house using my DELL laptop. I take a

feed up to my TV in the drawing room on the first floor using Home Plugs and

that works well - HD transfers perfectly.



Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot pick up the router

in the front part of the house and certainly not upstairs.



So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to pick up the Home Plug

signal and broadcast that as wi-fi so I can use the iPad while watching TV.

BT sell a kit that does that for �89 - but people here may know of a better

answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to that but before I start

burrowing under floors, I would welcome advice.



Geoff

If you have an android 'phone get the Wi-Fi Analyzer app. It shows which signals are available and their strength. I find it very useful for this sort of thing as you can test signal strength around the house.

We did find with some visitors who had apple kit that if they logged on initially close to the router, then they could alsways log on again further away. Why I do not know.

Jonathan

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"Jonathan" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 3:22:34 PM UTC, Geoff Pearson wrote:
My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my study. The
wi-fi

from that reaches all parts of the house using my DELL laptop. I take a

feed up to my TV in the drawing room on the first floor using Home Plugs
and

that works well - HD transfers perfectly.



Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot pick up the
router

in the front part of the house and certainly not upstairs.



So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to pick up the Home
Plug

signal and broadcast that as wi-fi so I can use the iPad while watching
TV.

BT sell a kit that does that for �89 - but people here may know of a
better

answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to that but before I
start

burrowing under floors, I would welcome advice.



Geoff

If you have an android 'phone get the Wi-Fi Analyzer app. It shows which
signals are available and their strength. I find it very useful for this
sort of thing as you can test signal strength around the house.

We did find with some visitors who had apple kit that if they logged on
initially close to the router, then they could alsways log on again
further away. Why I do not know.

Jonathan

but you can't download from Google Apps on an iPad. Maddening

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 16:04:17 -0000, "Geoff Pearson"
wrote:


If you have an android 'phone get the Wi-Fi Analyzer app. It shows which
signals are available and their strength. I find it very useful for this
sort of thing as you can test signal strength around the house.

We did find with some visitors who had apple kit that if they logged on
initially close to the router, then they could alsways log on again
further away. Why I do not know.

Jonathan

but you can't download from Google Apps on an iPad. Maddening

You could try "InSSIDer" instead. According to the website it's
available for the Mac, so presumably other Apple devices too.

Rod.

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On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:46:29 +0000, Roderick Stewart
You could try "InSSIDer" instead. According to the website it's
available for the Mac, so presumably other Apple devices too.

Yes, this is very useful piece of software. I added it when I was
getting very variable reults from my wi-fi setup, sometimes working
fine, at other times dropping the connection and coming back soon, but
mostly just dropping it and leaving me high and dry, usually requiring
a re-boot of the computer to get it going again.

In my vicinity I have at least 30 other wifi transmissions listed by
InSSIDer, often many more, so it is a crowded 2.4GHz envirionment; The
problem only resolved itself when one of my immediate neighbours moved
out and their Virgin wifi network and its damned repeater was gone.

Their repeater tranmitted across six or seven channels, in addition to
their main router across three.

My recommendation, instal some cable, it's faster, more reliable and
much more secure.

- Mike

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On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:53:12 +0000, Mike Murphy wrote:

My recommendation, instal some cable, it's faster, more reliable and
much more secure.

Mine too. Unfortunately it's also more work. There's always a catch.

Rod.

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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:53:12 +0000, Mike Murphy wrote:

My recommendation, instal some cable, it's faster, more reliable and
much more secure.

Mine too. Unfortunately it's also more work. There's always a catch.

Rod.

OK - how do I plug an iPad into an Ethernet socket?

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On 07/01/2014 07:01, Geoff Pearson wrote:


OK - how do I plug an iPad into an Ethernet socket?

With this ?

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC...hernet-adapter

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Mark
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