Wireless_link_up

title: Wireless link up date: 2005-05-03 06:26:30

Welp, the wireless link got set up yesterday. We've now got two Tsunami 100s (unfortunate name, that) installed and pointing at each other from our office windows. Rough guess is that it's something like 150 metres between the two units. OpenVPN worked right away, which makes me happy. Ping times were good between the two units -- 4 or 5 ms.

I tested it by copying the same big-ass file from one end to the other that, over a crossover cable, took less than 2 minutes to copy -- and was shocked to find the ETA listed as 16 hours and climbing. What the...but then I visited the other side and found that the ethernet cable had been connected to the 10Mb/s jack, not the 100Mb/s jack. This made things better, but still crappy: 30 or 40 minutes was the ETA.

Near as I can figure, we're getting about 1.5Mb/s on this thing, which isn't much different from ADSL. The units are half-duplex, and I suppose that could be affecting things somehow (besides the obvious, I mean), but that still seems terribly low to me. I spent most of yesterday getting other things in the new digs working, so I didn't have a chance to call the company who set it up; that'll be today's job.

Another gotcha from the move: turns out that our voicemail system (Norstar something or other) actually requires a phone to be physically present in order to send a call to voicemail after n rings. That was a bit of a surprise. We're currently scrambling to get some extra phones to leave hooked up. (Don't even ask why voicemail or their direct lines doesn't work at the new office.)