God I hate wireless..
Your-Amish-Daddy
The heart of Texas
Ok, here's the skinny. Yesterday at about...I'd say 10 in the morning, I managed to fix my xbox, so I wanted to put it on the network so I could cram it full of stuff, like movies, music and flamethrowers. Well, Okay not flamethrowers, but that'd be pretty awesome to have an Xbox with a flamethrower. I run a Dlink DWL AG530 on a Linksys WRT54GX4. Well, before today I never had a problem with dropping the signal, as my signal never goes under 55% for very long. Well I was doing some experimentation with WPA-PSK because I'd prefer putting in a pass phrase than remembering a hex key as long as my genitals, since I want the best security, I use 128bit. Well, I was having no problems with it and I finished my testing and went back to WEP so I didn't have to change anything on my PSP or 360 to save me some time. Well, then fphs02* shows up and my wireless card has a seisure and tries to connect to it, even though it just recently showed back up. Back before I jumped to wireless, I got this card to survey the popularity and functionality of wireless, dunno if that post made the transfer, and the general deployment for a personal study, and for when my internet went out because Timewarner sucks and apparently hires monkeys to run the cables so they get cut by trees and disconnected by wind. Real geniuses there. Anyway, After what I suspect to be a belkin shows up, I can barely hold a connection to my own quite powerful radio. I've set my channels to some weird numbers, channel 1 for normal, 9 for adaptive and it still sinks. Well I turn on SuperA/G which from my guestimation is supposed to make two connections, one in A and one in G and bind them for extra width, and I rarely drop, it's down to once every two hours. Well, now my linkspeed swings further than Bela Lugosi's makeup artists during takes. From 8 to 48 in 8 seconds. I've got a 19dbi directional panel antenna since the dipole that came with my card sucked horribly.
I've since fixed this by setting up a 2.4ghz RF jammer on the far side of my garage to block that signal. I just felt like ranting.
EDIT:// Crap, I forgot half of it. Anyway to continue from where I started rambling, Wireless sucks because I wanted to directly connect my Xbox to my PC so I could get link speed instead of whatever miasma my Dlink decided to let me use, and the only way I could remember to get the two to work together is to bridge the connection. Well, when my link speed changed, the whole thing went to beans. Wireless card crashed, and I couldn't see the xbox anymore, but I could see my 360. Weird. Anyway, Question I got is; Is there any way to tell an FTP client to bind to a specific adapter, and if there is, which ones do it, since WINSCP sucks at it?
I've since fixed this by setting up a 2.4ghz RF jammer on the far side of my garage to block that signal. I just felt like ranting.
EDIT:// Crap, I forgot half of it. Anyway to continue from where I started rambling, Wireless sucks because I wanted to directly connect my Xbox to my PC so I could get link speed instead of whatever miasma my Dlink decided to let me use, and the only way I could remember to get the two to work together is to bridge the connection. Well, when my link speed changed, the whole thing went to beans. Wireless card crashed, and I couldn't see the xbox anymore, but I could see my 360. Weird. Anyway, Question I got is; Is there any way to tell an FTP client to bind to a specific adapter, and if there is, which ones do it, since WINSCP sucks at it?
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