[plug] Wireless Woes - Solved

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 22:04, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> Dunno if anyone might find this interesting, but I solved my transfer rate woes by placing a 
> dodgy-brothers 10/100 4 port mini-switch in between the WAP11 and DWL-900AP+. I now get 450kb/s in 
> each direction.
> 
> I have never seen ethernet ports not compatible enough to work properly over a crossover cable, but 
> the WAP11 is 10BaseT and the DWL-900AP+ is 100BaseT and this seemed to be enough to get them to choke.

> Interesting as the stats page did not list any dropped ethernet packets.
> 

As they say computer science is to science as plumbing is to
hydrodynamics. (:

> Anyway, that's my story!
> 
> Regards,
> Brad
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