Bandwidth Throttle?
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Roger Wright wrote: all I have to do to throttle it is to persuade a flock of birds to fly in front of it, or position a potted plant between my antenna and the access point LOL! Too funny! Rocky Moore <><
It's true! When I first set this up, the access point was 8 miles away or so in another state. Out here in the middle of the desert we have few trees, and the only thing visible on the horizon was one scrawny palm tree growing directly in my line of sight about 4 miles away. It worked fine for a few weeks, then it rained and my signal began dropping. We eventually figured out that the dormant palm was a nuisance, though not serious, but once the sap began to rise in the trunk after water made it to the roots it became a ground rod. Grounded objects look like bright shiny mirrors to microwaves. Redirecting my antenna to a new access point solved the problem, but I was sorely tempted for a time to sneak out in the night with a chain saw.:)
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It's true! When I first set this up, the access point was 8 miles away or so in another state. Out here in the middle of the desert we have few trees, and the only thing visible on the horizon was one scrawny palm tree growing directly in my line of sight about 4 miles away. It worked fine for a few weeks, then it rained and my signal began dropping. We eventually figured out that the dormant palm was a nuisance, though not serious, but once the sap began to rise in the trunk after water made it to the roots it became a ground rod. Grounded objects look like bright shiny mirrors to microwaves. Redirecting my antenna to a new access point solved the problem, but I was sorely tempted for a time to sneak out in the night with a chain saw.:)
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee..."Yeah, I know that feeling. A friend of mine had a line-of-site system out here and everything was fine when it was installed in the winter, but when summer hit he had virtually no signal.. Too many trees :) I am sure he thought about his chain saw a lot ;) Rocky Moore <><
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Does anyone know of a bandwidth throttle that could be used to slow down your bandwidth? That is, I would like to be able to test 28K and 56K speed connections but I only have a 1.5 megabit cable modem. Is there anything that I can run with would all me to set a bandwidth locally coming in and out of the machine? Rocky Moore <><