From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.24]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.1) with ESMTPA id 116703 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 19 May 2006 08:14:09 -0400 Message-ID: <446DB68D.9060609@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:14:05 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060510 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0h SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: WiFI References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/19/2006 02:58 am, Dave Saville thus wrote : > On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:30:29 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > >> Trial and error (and XWLAN) will give you an indication of >> how much signal you regain. >> > > I was recently corresponding with M Erskin who designed the EZ-10 corner > reflector for 2.4 GHz and he said that because the card and the AP are > constantly re jigging the transmission the strength indicator shown by most > software is not a lot if use in determining if a reflector is actually doing > anything useful. Unfortunately he did not suggest what was :-( > > That's interesting to hear. It doesn't jive with what I've read (or experienced), but it's interesting to read. I'll do some further digging on this. PS - I still owe you a reply to your last email. It's coming. ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users International www.novell.com/linux/truth Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------