Tag: Wireless network
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Lousy wireless on OS X Mavericks
To be honest I have not noticed any improvement on upgrading to OS X Mavericks on this laptop, but I have noticed a significant degradation in the performance of the wireless networking – notably dropped connections and long re-connect times. Not impressed. And, of course, it is proprietary software so there is little chance of…
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Took me a week, but I did it
Finally managed to use my Raspberry Pi to host a bridged wireless connection, so extending my wireless network to cover all the house (not that it’s that big, but the signal from the router seems to work well in only one axis). Will post a fuller description in due course, in case someone else wants…
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Wireless bridge again
Can confirm that I need both commands: /etc/init.d/hostapd restart iwconfig wlan0 mode master to get my wired to wireless bridge to come back up on my Ubuntu box. Not quite sure why as obviously the hostapd service comes up on boot and the /etc/network/interfaces file has that exact mode setting line. But the bridge comes…
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Wireless bridge, update
The wlan0 <–> eth0 ethernet bridge I have on my server now essentially works well, apart from a few issues. The most serious seems to be that the wireless card will suddenly stop working – in the sense of disassociating and then refusing to re-associate. The first time it did this it took 10 days,…
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Wireless bridge: seems I spoke too soon
I don’t think my wired <-> wireless bridge is working after all: although, after many hours fighting with the setup, it seems stable. But, fundamentally, it would appear that the chipset on all wireless cards except for the Prism based ones, is not able to properly handle packets passed over the bridge and so won’t…
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Wired to wireless bridge in Ubuntu Linux
Update: This – https://cartesianproduct.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/raspberry-pi-as-an-ethernet-to-wifi-bridge/ – is a more recent article about how bridge a Debian-like system. I would start from there! My triumph of the day has been to set up a bridged connection between a wireless card and a wired internet connection – substantially improving the coverage afforded by my wireless network. Doing this…
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