On 2021-04-02 13:01, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 12:18:22 -0400 (EDT) > Brett Delmage <brett [ dot ] delmage [ at ] twobikes [ dot ] ottawa [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > I wired the computers in the house for 10base2 25? years ago, from > > basement to attic. Of course it's been upgraded to gigbit CAT6 since > > then. > > Yeah, I have gigabit CAT6 also, though 100Mb/s would have > been more than enough for traffic to the Internet. We just bought this house 14 years ago so I had it wired with cat5 basement to attic and there are GigE switches on both ends. > > Now if I could only get a phone with an ethernet jack. > > I wonder if it would support a USB Ethernet dongle with an OTG cable? > I know Android supports keyboards, mice, headsets, etc. but I wonder > if they've compiled in support for Ethernet? That would be interesting > to try. I've wondered this more than once myself, but don't use mobile devices to have that experience or interest. One of my kids whose music teacher was glued to a SIM-dependant service that could still use IP for bulk data complained about reliability but wouldn't accept that wireless was the problem and switch to a wired service. > > Sometimes my phone's network operation goes strange, making me > > wonder if someone isn't trying one of the wifi network attacks on > > me. Maybe I shouldn't name my wifi SSID "RCMP surveillance van" or > > "CSEC Mobile 22A, etc.? > > Ahaha, nice. I had a WNDR3800 refurb that had some intermittent hardware issues to the thing would need a hard reboot a couple of times a week to reset the radios. The second identical new unit is behaving much better. :-) > I use a 32-character long randomly-generated password as my WPA2 shared > secret, so I'm not worried about someone getting onto the network, but > I suppose flooding/DoSing the AP is always possible. Mine isn't quite as long, but I'm similarly not concerned about about someone getting in, but have had some DoS issues... I can see at least a couple dozen neighbouring APs here, including occasionally the pub facing us across the river. ;-) > Dianne. slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org