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| schestowitz | > Hi, Roy, | May 30 15:50 |
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| schestowitz | > | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > I've got three wi-fi cards to test this weekend. Do you have any | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > suggestions for metrics or tests? | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > I figure I'll test signal and noise at various ranges with two types of | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > antenna. I'll also test throughput with SFTP at various ranges. | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > Wi-fi has been on my list of things to do for almost exactly 10 years. | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > I'm stuck using 11g this time around but will probably move to 11ac in a | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > few years. | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | I don't like Wi-Fi due to health reasons. My wife uses 3G all day long; with me, it's not much better as the router is close to my had and feeds the tablet now (it had been switched off for years, with Wi-Fi disabled). I am actually thinking right now, maybe I should make a habit of diabling the Wi-Fi all time that I'm not using it... | May 30 15:50 |
| schestowitz | > That's how I'm going to set this base station. It will be off when I am | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | > not actively using it. I'm getting good reception to the table in the | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | > yard, but what I really need is reception in the greenhouse because the | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | > season to sit out there extends much earlier/later. | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | > | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | > Our neighbors must really be nuking themselves, I can pick up some of | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | > their signal over here about 100m away. | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | I am trying to find a convenient way, e.g. using the WPS button at the back, to quickly switch it on/off. Googling it still ain't helping... | May 30 16:01 |
| schestowitz | "The BT Home Hub 3 incorporated WPS functionality, seen on other routers, which enables the user to connect to their encrypted network by the use of a "one touch" button, and also includes "smart wireless technology", which automatically chooses the wireless channel to give the strongest possible wireless signal.[5] WPS has since been (temporarily) disabled by firmware updates[6] due to security issues with the standard." | May 30 16:04 |
| schestowitz | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Home_Hub | May 30 16:04 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: BT Home Hub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .::. Size~: 78.87 KB | May 30 16:04 |
| schestowitz | >> I am trying to find a convenient way, e.g. using the WPS button at the | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | >> back, to quickly switch it on/off. Googling it still ain't helping... | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | > | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | > Many base stations also allow you to adjust the power levels to suit you | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | > needs. If you only use it in the same room, there is no need to have it | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | > at full strength. | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | The button at the back turns out, based on Wikipedia, to be of no use now due to security vulnerabilities. it used to be used to scan for optimal channel to use. I'll use the web-based software-driven way to switch on/off this router. Thanks for reminding me, it is LONG overdue. | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | I could not find an option for signal strength. | May 30 16:08 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2669070 | May 30 18:19 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #US Government can now override #encryption by alleging you do something illegal http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14970 | May 30 18:19 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Judge orders porn suspect to decrypt his hard drives .::. Size~: 43.44 KB | May 30 18:19 |
| schestowitz | "A judge cannot say "Fifth Amendment protection will no longer be available " without violating the constitution. Period." | May 30 18:19 |
| schestowitz | "They can try." | May 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | " | May 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | "No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. | May 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | It is a restriction on government power, and this is not within the government's power to invalidate, at least not legally. | May 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | " | May 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | "Yeah, they are trying and succeeding. Screw that. They must be stopped." | May 30 18:30 |
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| schestowitz | " | May 30 18:49 |
| schestowitz | And you probobly help them doing it by using AES - nationally accepted "encryption" algho. Not very wise, if you ask me. Why would they make it hardware-supported and fast, how do you think? | May 30 18:49 |
| schestowitz | It's all so you coud choose it, use it and don't look for other crypto. They probobly have some backdoor built into that algho, or the implementation. | May 30 18:49 |
| schestowitz | " | May 30 18:49 |
| schestowitz | " | May 30 18:50 |
| schestowitz | I suspect you're right marc. The Feds have prohibited the sale of other types of encryption. And tel-com doesn't use encryption even on digital phones. It's BS. We ought to at least have the option for single-touch encryption. | May 30 18:50 |
| schestowitz | Empower the individual! Power to the people! Screw this communist manifesto crap of controlling all communications. | May 30 18:50 |
| schestowitz | " | May 30 18:50 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2667505 | May 30 19:18 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5 https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5 #drm #html5 #eff | May 30 19:18 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5 | Electronic Frontier Foundation .::. Size~: 30.12 KB | May 30 19:18 |
| schestowitz | "Damn it. Where is mesh broadband?" | May 30 19:18 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2669070 | May 30 22:33 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #US Government can now override #encryption by alleging you do something illegal http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14970 | May 30 22:33 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Judge orders porn suspect to decrypt his hard drives .::. Size~: 43.44 KB | May 30 22:33 |
| schestowitz | "With free software we have all the powers we need in a digital word. Use other crypto." | May 30 22:33 |
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