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    Antenna Education Needed

    Yes, the success of a broadcast isn't in a one-piece vacuum - there has to be a relationship (with causes and effects) with Receiver units. This will bring up Topic #2 - how does a Receiver damage or affect an Antenna or its output signals. A microwave oven creates a collision-zone at the...
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    Antenna Education Needed

    No high school for me, none of the American middle school either, certainly no physics! Those were working years for me and I scraped thru Calc. I can't tell a sine wave from a cosine wave - when I see 'em on the street, we generally go our tangential ways. As for "space between" signals...
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    Antenna Education Needed

    When I look at oscilloscope drawings of waves, I see the fluid-style troughs and peaks, spacing in between those points and the height of the wave. But this is a single wave. When I see animations of omni-directional antennas, those waves are illustrated as almost donut-shaped waves...
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    Weird random local network "dropouts"

    This probably comes from their industry training classes - "Customers Need Our Help To Screw Things Up Even More, 401". This is a management level class; thinking-workers wouldn't do this, knowing they'd be required to solve these problems.
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    Antenna Education Needed

    Continuing thanks... I wasn't thinking the signal-waves were compressed - but the space between them would be less at point-of-origin (the antenna) than a 10-20-30 feet away.
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    Looking to get AC router, noticed Archer C7 and RT-AC56U are $80 @ NewEgg

    "Wait 3 weeks... these come back around." Confucius said this, about shopping at NewEgg. Well... that's what I heard.
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    Oh, those helium hard drives...

    My first extended drive in the XKE was a 2002 post-midnight drive out of Las Vegas towards Reno, about 2 am. After a couple of hours of no longer seeing traffic, I boosted the speed (just a bit) and after 20 minutes, everything went dead. All needles bounced flat. Outta gas? Nope. Lights...
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    Antenna Education Needed

    L, yes indeed. This is what my practical world experience is, too. This is mutating into a radio-wave education I need.
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    Antenna Education Needed

    My allusion to some "flight formation" is probably incorrect because it has an underlying assumption of some Order For Travel - bit 1, 2, 3 followed by 4, 5, 6. And that isn't the order for "travel" - it's the order for "arrival" but "travel order" can't be validated or adjusted. However...
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    Oh, those helium hard drives...

    We have a neighbor who has a fenderless '38 and he uses the tyres for comfortable points-n-plugs replacement, but nothing could help it in corners against the XKE. At the same time, his would start two times in a row. ahem...
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    TP-LINK Archer C8 is out

    The frame appears to be one-piece and therefore has some sturdiness to it, so an extended clamp-arm onto its base might yield a pole or rack-post fitting, with a sufficient clearance for cabling. A round-post might allow easy twists to access rear-connections. A square one...ugh. Maybe this...
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    Antenna Education Needed

    Does an antenna's nearness to a wall create a 'splash-back' effect for WiFi signals? (Let's assume it's a transmit-thru capable wall, too.) I think I need to find out if a signal, once it leaves the antenna, is broken into some packet-sequence that requires "flight distance to form up", like a...
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    TP-LINK Archer C8 is out

    I'm not too sure on boxes that have frames that limit their mounting orientation. I haven't examined the photos to see if that frame could be removed as if I'd mount it on some surface other than a single flat shelf or desk (ie, a pole in the corner, or a wall) but I don't always appreciate...
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    Broken power button

    That plunger mechanism - a real metal spring with pure plastic housings to guide the plunger-piston. No telling what the contact-point looks like - these have changed, always 'to the cheaper'. I'm shocked that the whole world isn't full of kajillionaires considering all the vast fortunes...
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    TP-LINK Archer C8 is out

    BSOD, yes, absolutely - Amazon's whole Sort functionality, any data filtering, any indexing is simply The Worst I've Seen on any commercial website. The mating of divergent product reviews with similar ones is notorious in the DVD-BluRay-CD side - where "newly released remasters" are...
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    Oh, those helium hard drives...

    I've made some fun about the helium HDDs, usually referring to new case dimensions... And I'm a big fan of roomy cases where I can get to every part by just removing a single panel. I love the original Compaq desktops - they were like working on an XKE - prop the bonnet open, sit on the...
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    Looking to get AC router, noticed Archer C7 and RT-AC56U are $80 @ NewEgg

    Here's a NewEgg page of Refurb/Open Box with a couple of $70-90 entries, as of Monday, Sep 22 afternoon. These notoriously come and go, though.
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    Blocking Bitorrents at router level

    Rich, if you're still around, perhaps the ASUS ROUTER subforum would yield quicker results for this same topic.
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    Netis Routers Leave Wide Open Backdoor

    I enjoy purchasing from Monoprice.COM. They have excellent values on a variety of products and, for the most part, I understand it's a "buyer beware" issue. But that's true of every vendor. They're selling a Netis-made ac1200 router and adapter for a good value ($125 combo, sometimes on...
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    Range: G vs N vs AC?

    I suppose we'll always be saying this but, "Lucky you! You're facing a new generation of technology - just in time for you!" The Powerline (or sometimes called "HomePlug") units moved from 100 to 200 after several years. And from 200 to 500 a couple of years ago. Now, we're seeing the...
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