Thursday, January 26, 2006

Dead Spots? Use Your Cable Setup to Send Signals to Every Corner - New York Times

Dead Spots? Use Your Cable Setup to Send Signals to Every Corner - New York Times: "One solution is the AuraGrid, which distributes the network signal over your TV cable system. (It does not work with satellite TV.) The $89.99 kit from AuraOne Systems, available at various online stores, includes a splitter you install where the cable enters your house, connectors to feed your wireless router or access point into the nearest cable jack, and antennas to rebroadcast the signal in three rooms. Additional antennas are $19.99 each. No tools or AC outlets are required."

(Apologies for the sparse and delayed posts this week; sparse because I was at Lotusphere -- more on that in future posts, and delayed because Blogger was MIA for at least the first half of today.

Also in the fun-with-software department: I flew home from Orlando on a Delta/Song 757 last night. Many passengers started to lose their TV signals, so the flight attendents rebooted the system. It's a Linux system; suddenly every seatback on the plane was displaying a text mode system check/restart log for a couple minutes...)

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