[ale] Lose internet access when moving rooms on campus

[Omar Chanouha]

I agree, I should not need a new connection, but when I make the move the
internet becomes almost unusable. It seems like a combination of
noise+singal loss. I have tried dhcpd -k. Once my laptop switches from one
AP to another it loses the network. Maybe something to do with the way the
campus network works? If nothing works, Ill try to install network manager,
but i would much rather know why this is happening.

-OFosho, Miami Dolphin

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:19 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm confused as to why you need to negotiate a new connection. You
> shouldn't be loosing so much signal strength between the hall and the
> classroom that it would matter. If you _do_ loose that much signal,
> then the wireless card should automatically look for a stronger
> signal. That's the way it works.
>
> Anyway, have you tried using `dhcpcd -k` to get a new lease?
>
> 2009/2/18 Omar Chanouha <ofosho at gatech.edu>:
> > Hey Everyone,
> >
> >     I go to gatech. Often times I show up early to a class and connect to
> an
> > AP in the hall to start browsing the web. Then I go into the classroom
> and
> > obviously the signal from the AP I am connected to loses signal
> > strength/quality. So I kill dhcpcd and take wlan0 down. Then i bring
> wlan0
> > up again, connect to the AP with iwconfig, and run dhcpcd. iwconfig says
> it
> > is connected to a new AP, dhcpcd says it is offered the same ip again,
> which
> > ifconfig is bound to. So, in theory, everything should be good. I have an
> ip
> > and i'm connected to the router, however I can not ping any part of the
> > network. I can't ping the gateway, the dhcp router or the internet. Any
> body
> > have any thoughts as to what could be wrong or where I should start
> > debugging?
> >
> > I am running gentoo/flux and connect with iwconfig/dhcpcd only (no gui).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -OFosho, Miami Dolphin and Open Source Aficionado
> >
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