WTF, I am confused.
Sep. 7th, 2008 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sureiThe internet in my room is wonky. This is an established fact. It's also been established through exhaustive experimentation that it's not the hardware, and it's not the software, and while fussing with positioning and restarting and rebooting the airport hub and all that may sometimes improve things, it may not. There doesn't seem to be any pattern I can follow.
But. When I go to choose a network, there's this random, rogue other network, unencrypted, unimaginatively called "linksys". Linksys will form a connection on the least provocation, but it will not supply you with an IP. Very annoying.
The current theory is that linksys is interfering with my connection. Dad wants to take some time someday to have me watch the strength of the connection (with the PSP, since the computer only shoes me blippies and not an actual, fluctuating percentage; and it will sometimes tell me that I'm on and going strong when linksys has hijacked me again, but I can't actually connect because of the no-IP thing) while he he moves this piece of sheet metal he's got around the room.
Now, here's another thing: I have no idea of the actual cardinal directions, so I'm just going to assume that the entrance faces south (I'm pretty sure it doesn't) in order to make it easy on myself. My room is in the far house!SE corner of the house. It's the third largest room in the house (surpassed only by the master bedroom and my mother's studio), and has more windows than any other room except the studio, which is an extension and therefore doesn't play fair. Anyway. You would think that the linksys connection is being broadcast by our neighbors beyond my bedroom window, perhaps. Which it might be. There's just one problem with this.
Wireless internet signals do not extend particularly far, and every time they hit an obstacle and either pass through it or bounce around it, they weaken, sometimes dramatically. I can understand the possibility of accidentally picking up our neighbor's signal, sometimes, if it's managed to reach me despite the distance, the walls, my dresser, bookcases, and stuff, as well as my own elsewhere-attuned signal, which should logically be interfering with it as much as it interferes with me.
But I've picked up linksys in both the living room and the kitchen, which are at the opposite end of the house.
Where is this signal coming from? Why does it only mess up my internet in my room? And why, when I deliberately scan for any possible signals with the PSP, does it not recognize it, even when my computer tells me it's at full strength?
I do not comprehend.
It's a phantom internet. It must be. Why it has decided to haunt my room, and why it seems to occasionally be appeased when I haul furniture around, I do not know.
Obviously, I need an exorcist.
EDIT - If you can figure out why I've given this the 'fan' and 'game' tags, points to you.
But. When I go to choose a network, there's this random, rogue other network, unencrypted, unimaginatively called "linksys". Linksys will form a connection on the least provocation, but it will not supply you with an IP. Very annoying.
The current theory is that linksys is interfering with my connection. Dad wants to take some time someday to have me watch the strength of the connection (with the PSP, since the computer only shoes me blippies and not an actual, fluctuating percentage; and it will sometimes tell me that I'm on and going strong when linksys has hijacked me again, but I can't actually connect because of the no-IP thing) while he he moves this piece of sheet metal he's got around the room.
Now, here's another thing: I have no idea of the actual cardinal directions, so I'm just going to assume that the entrance faces south (I'm pretty sure it doesn't) in order to make it easy on myself. My room is in the far house!SE corner of the house. It's the third largest room in the house (surpassed only by the master bedroom and my mother's studio), and has more windows than any other room except the studio, which is an extension and therefore doesn't play fair. Anyway. You would think that the linksys connection is being broadcast by our neighbors beyond my bedroom window, perhaps. Which it might be. There's just one problem with this.
Wireless internet signals do not extend particularly far, and every time they hit an obstacle and either pass through it or bounce around it, they weaken, sometimes dramatically. I can understand the possibility of accidentally picking up our neighbor's signal, sometimes, if it's managed to reach me despite the distance, the walls, my dresser, bookcases, and stuff, as well as my own elsewhere-attuned signal, which should logically be interfering with it as much as it interferes with me.
But I've picked up linksys in both the living room and the kitchen, which are at the opposite end of the house.
Where is this signal coming from? Why does it only mess up my internet in my room? And why, when I deliberately scan for any possible signals with the PSP, does it not recognize it, even when my computer tells me it's at full strength?
I do not comprehend.
It's a phantom internet. It must be. Why it has decided to haunt my room, and why it seems to occasionally be appeased when I haul furniture around, I do not know.
Obviously, I need an exorcist.
EDIT - If you can figure out why I've given this the 'fan' and 'game' tags, points to you.