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Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-25T05:05:13Z

an excellent synopsis, thank you sir.

y'all have been great to participate in my conundrum, and i am truly
grateful for your time and assistance.

3 cheers for personaltelco! huzzahs!

-justin

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-25T00:54:07Z

WIFI, uses radiowaves and is quite susceptible to an ever changing landscape of interference as well as physics (ie. signals bouncing off the walls of a newly built building in a different way than it used to before the building was there, or something as simple as leaves growing or falling with the seasons). One would expect that as it's fall, leaves would be less of a problem, but it's also wetter everywhere in general which means anything that your signal may have been going through that can soak up water is going to attenuate your signal further than it would if it were dry.

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-25T00:29:16Z

If they're using microwave ovens, yes!

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Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T23:53:16Z

That certainly does make sense. the only confusing part of this is that for
2 years i've been using that node with no trouble, and i haven't changed
anything. would this be affected by more people using the node (like my
favorite restaurant being discovered by the critics)?

thanks,
Justin

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T23:47:47Z

Actually, the fact that you don't have this problem anywhere else points to
a reason that it might be your environment at home specifically. The node
may be loud enough to shout something at you.. and your device may hear it..
But your device may not be loud enough to shout back to the node antenna.

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T22:20:08Z

gotcha

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Russell Senior

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Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T22:05:29Z

once i am back home i will fetch the ethernet id for you...i'm skeptical
that it's my box just because i don't have this problem at any other
location or, to my knowledge, with any other connection.

again, i appreciate the attention.
justin

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Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T22:15:57Z

Tyler> Justin, If you go to System Preferences, click on Network,
Tyler> then Airport, and under "Advanced" click on Ethernet. You'll
Tyler> see a string of letters/numbers titled "Ethernet ID" that may
Tyler> help Russell determine if the low signal strength device he is
Tyler> seeing is yours or someone else.

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T21:41:11Z

Justin,

If you go to System Preferences, click on Network, then Airport, and under "Advanced" click on Ethernet. You'll see a string of letters/numbers titled "Ethernet ID" that may help Russell determine if the low signal strength device he is seeing is yours or someone else.

Tyler Booth // President

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T19:28:24Z

indeed. staying connected. getting connected is no problem, provided that
I turn the airport off and on before attempting to reconnect.

when i get disconnected, the signal strength goes out, yes.

i will try running the ping.

And thanks Tyler...I did not know you were also with stephouse; I work at

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T21:29:23Z

Tyler> So just to be clear, you're having an issue of staying
Tyler> connected, not with getting connected? If that's the case, your
Tyler> laptop is likely disconnecting you due to interference or weak
Tyler> signal strength.

When we were investigating the initial report, we were seeing someone

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T18:59:05Z

So just to be clear, you're having an issue of staying connected, not with getting connected? If that's the case, your laptop is likely disconnecting you due to interference or weak signal strength.
Try sitting outside in clear line of site with the antenna for a while to see if you can duplicate the issue. When you are "disconnected" does the signal strength meter on your laptop go out, or to pages just stop loading? Try running that ping test once again when its "out"

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T15:43:02Z

y'know, i thought that might have been it, so i switched back...no
change, the problem cont'd

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T15:44:27Z

Thanks Michael, as I mentioned to Tyler, I tried that early on. made no
difference in terms of remaining connected to personal telco

Re: [ptp-ops] Re: Node Report - Communitecture

2009-11-24T06:39:49Z

Has the Communitecture IP address changed? OpenDNS works based on IP
addresses you register with them. I wonder if that causes issues if
multiple users on one connection have OpenDNS setup on their
computers. Might confuse the service which, well, I'm not sure what
that would do.

Justin, can you try turning off OpenDNS, that is removing it from your