From: "Frank Haber" 

>How did you increase Tx on wireless?

The Linksys WRT54G is an embedded-UNIX box of some sort.  There is copious
scratch space.  The opsys is totally headless, and you can't admin it via
any known protocol.  You can, however, feed it peculiar pings and read what
happens in a data area.  I pinged.

There are now complete, completely unauthorized rewrites of the flashable
part of the firmware that give you a web interface to all sorts of stuff
I'd bet the FCC doesn't want you to see.  I'm going to try them soon.

Heck, for a year now you've been able to buy 5dB gain rubber duckies with
the proper connectors right at your local RADIO SHACK, fercryingoutloud. 
Talk about laissez-faire!  Every libertarian must be wringing his hands
with glee.

You can see the results of it all in Manhattan.  I now can turn off
wireless on my router, then circumnavigate my high-floor apartment with a
laptop, picking up 11-15 other routers, half of them unprotected.  But can
you connect to any?  Nah - they're all on Ch. 6.  Can you download 100k
before someone picks up a 2.4GHz telephone and knocks you offline?  Nah. 
Can you get through more than one thick plaster wall --- weeeellll, that's
improved.  I now can get through ONE wall with 66% signal strength.  More
at 11, when the humidity goes up and the plaster gets damper.

Fegh.  It's enough to make you wish for Socialism.  Gimme the good old days
of Norman Thomas, and hand me a CAT 5.  You think I'm exaggerating? 
Google, "tragedy of the commons."  And remember this is the town
that killed citizen's band in the 1980s with 500W linears in 5,000 taxicab
trunks.  It was very entertaining to hear 2,000 Greeks trying to outshout
2,000 Punjabis.  The Punjabis won, about 1991, just in time for cell phones
to take over.

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