[mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame

[Robert Adkins]

> 
> Robert Adkins wrote:
> > My house bizarely acts similar to a Faraday cage.
> >   
> 
> How old is your house?  Houses built in the 50s and 60s used 
> something called "diamond lath" to hold the plaster, in which 
> case your house DOES have a Faraday cage of steel mesh in the 
> walls.  It would be interrupted by windows or doors, but even 
> the interior walls will have it. but the basement will not.
> 

	That explains it. The house was built in 1951.


> If you really want that signal you will need an antenna on 
> the house and a repeater inside.
> 

	I'll have to look into that, if I need outside access to my network.

	Thanks for that info Gary.


	-Rob