Hay All,

Just wondering, if any of you have played or do play LFS over a Wireless connection.  The reason I ask, is where my is going to be situated, it "really" has to go wireless.  The BT Socket is right next to the front door, and the BT Extension goes upstairs the the girls room.

As it is still the "early" days, don't really want to go drilling holes in walls just yet.

Cheers

Shaun

I run wireless with no probs.  Can't really cable it where mine is either.

I used to have no end of problems with routers (Netgear and Linksys), but my current cheapo ISP provided SpeedTouch router is faultless!

LFS seems to keep the wireless connection alive on the bad routers though, it's when I was just browsing the web that they kept dropping.

Also depends on, whether there are other wireless LANs around you. So possibly changing you channel (1-15) could also improve your ping, because packet collisions with other wLANs, are killing your ping. 

But nothing is better than a cable, maybe except if you are sitting on the mars, because then your pings are really bad. Only solution for that could be QLAN (Quantum LAN). 

I have done some very basic  testing with wireless and lfs and with my laptop no more than 8m away from the NETGEAR DG834GT router I get a good to excellent signal (@54Mbps)and can play LFS for over 1 hour without any probs I will try some interfeerance testing tommorow with cordless phone electrical appliances flouresent lighting ect, and let you know how I get on.

SD.

I have to agree that the signal can be better with a higher or larger ( within wavelenth or fraction/multiple of) antenna but I had a little chuckle at the travels down comment hehe, all transmitions  emmited from antennas radiate out in all directions unless a directional antenna is used the reason higher is sometimes better is because there is less to cause interferance, unless of course you are directly under it

also worth a mention, telecom systems have changed alot in the past 20 years but internal domestic  telephone wiring has not, and alot of people dont realise the internal phone cables in a house (and extension sockets) are often the cause of degradation and interferance on your line.
I would almost always advise to connect your router to the incoming phone companys master socket whereever possable, on a maxDSL service where connection speed is dynamic it should achieve a faster conn than the extensions on the secondary side.

SD.

The signal is two-way though, so you'd have to make sure that your router is higher than your wireless card, but also that your router is lower than your wireless card   

Maybe someone can explain my wireless idiosyncrasy
I'm via cable to router but my gf's PC is connected wirelessly. I have to put the encryption at WEP as I get no connection with WPA and WPA2, it suggests too much noise regardless of channel used 
It's not too worrying since I have MAC address filtering, but still astounds me. Router and dongle both made my USRobotics, even supplied together and I've tried changing a multitude of other settings also.