August 28, 2006
Weak Wi-Fi at school
I started my latest college semester today to find that my classes have been placed in classrooms where I can’t pick up on the Wi-Fi hotspot located at the town library, which is across the street from the school. Oddly, I used to be able to get a little bit of signal on the far side of the school, but now can’t get signal even in the middle of the school. I guess maybe they lowered power.
It’s frustrating to be unable to gather information relevant to the classes I’m in, since I’ve been doing that in the last five classes I’ve been in. It might help if I had more powerful hardware, since my crappy laptop has no PCMCIA slot, no built in Wi-Fi receiver, and I have a cheap USB Wi-Fi stick by Airlink. I’d build a cantenna, but I’d have no way to use it since my Wi-Fi stick has no place for an external antenna. I hope to get a decent laptop soon, however, so it may only be a short period of time before I have a big, ugly can sitting on my table in class. That will be hilarious.
Comment by Nick — Posted August 29, 2006 at 22:03
I know how that is. I generally have pretty crappy Wi-Fi reception in the classrooms where I need it. The cantenna idea seems amusing, though if it works, I wouldn’t really care how stupid it looks.