No Agenda Episode 648, Wi-Fi Bandwidth Technical Issues
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 648 of the No Agenda show from Amsterdam and Northern Silicon Valley. Curry describes resolving technical streaming issues from the previous broadcast by adjusting his router's Wi-Fi radio frequency bandwidth from 20 to 40 megahertz. The hosts discuss the challenges of managing a live chat room and technical backchannels while troubleshooting hardware during a production.
adam curry· john c. dvorak· amsterdam· silicon valley· wi-fi bandwidth· router settings· 40 megahertz
00:00 It's a QSL Bonanza. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday August 31st 2014 it's time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 648! This is no agenda... Now with 40 megahertz of RF bandwidth allocated to the Wi-Fi enabled canal house in The Pipe in the heart of Amsterdam In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm not traveling today I'm staying home on John C. Dvorak Yeah Now you're sounding good Jean Well, maybe Johnny Clodo. How are you gonna get a new router? You got a new router you got your new box yeah cool I don't know if that has anything to do with it No probably not I think because as I was checking things there is all kinds of other things going on Oh you had other things going on we're referring to Thursday's
00:55 Broad mediocre show the show is good. Thank you I listened to the show I listened back to the kale recipe book The show was outstanding my friend Field so here's a Here's what? I discovered did you discover anything besides your router box that yeah, my cable oh There was just general problems with the cable that had your band going up and down. The connection seems to be, was underneath the rain stick Oh! And as I bumped it with the rain stick after doing some rainstick action Which seems to have worked in the Midwest Hold on a second...I didn't know you rain-sticked without me? I did. I snuck one in Well I feel little harshed
01:53 You weren't in the room. I know, but when we stick with no we usually stick together you know? No, we don't stick together that's not true We stick together like birds of a feather even in rain or sunshine That's it sisters. That's it is sisters Sorry so what was your problem you had the you yours you had something screwy going on because you were I spent A lot of time first and I really had to decompress for 36 hours almost Because of just the chat room when something is wrong and you're asking there are people in there who? Are very helpful and have a lot of fight now expertise but in between all of the unplug it for 30 seconds All these extremely funny funny funny, it's just so funny
02:47 People couldn't just like shut up for one second so the people who actually knew something could post some information. And I'm telling you, because of this... I liked the jiggle the handle one! That's an oldie but goody isn't it? Oh yeah. Jiggle the handle. No, you really do like this one don't ya? It does. Well i've heard it so many times in the chat room that is not funny anymore to me. Jiggle the handle And then in the back channel I've got VoidZero. Of course he's an ASPY, you know all these guys are on the spectrum like I am and we all start freaking out we get sweaty and nervous and... ...and he can't figure out why the stream is breaking up because he's getting no signal from me Everything is going wrong but then he's Skyping messages which of course is going plunk! Plunk! Plunk! In my headphones
03:41 So all of this is going on and it was challenging to say the least. And we had this like 13, 14 minute reset so after all that I sit down with this router and I log in...I'm really taking my time and i do a lot of googling and there is a setting in this particular router which is the bandwidth of Wi-Fi radio frequency of the signal itself. For a lot of people this may sound strange because you think of bandwidth as in megabits, but just like a cable wire there is a bandwidth of the frequency... ...of the signal and it that you can choose between 20 megahertz or 40 megahertz so it's a much broader signal some devices won't work with that and actually I think it's more the older devices
04:38 And what had happened is everything was working fine until I fired up two more Wi-Fi devices. Because I had my speed test, everything was working fine and then I turned on the iPad which communicates with the MacBook Air for the jingle so you know...I can hit that stuff kind of on cue and then have it, uh, my really old MacBook Air, original version 3.1 whatever And I have that for chat room and a couple other things that are open on it. And when that happened, it took up all of the... somehow we think it wouldn't happen but it took up all this bandwidth of the actual RF bandwidth and then things started to buffer because I'm also sending out 128 kilobit stream to the server and when we hung up
05:33 I did a speed test and i had maybe 800 kilobits per second down and about 75 kilobits up. It's amazing we had any connection going on, huh? And the minute i changed that it fixed it! I'm being very careful of course. Well that brings up then...I would ask you this yes why don't you do that at the beginning of the show hey oh That reminds me of the joke that Peter Guber once told, and he was running Sony. Oh yeah I remember Peter Guber! Yeah he was running Sony and they Japanese kept grilling him about stuff so they said what were the movies for this year? He said well we had this movie and it did this much... We did this movie and it was a blockbuster then we do this movie and they showed all the movies And the Japanese says you must not know what your doing why don't you just do more of these? The Blockbusters
06:29 Yeah, please more of those. Just do more of these what are you doing these other movies for? The stupid movies that aren't blockbusters! Could you please produce a viral video for me? Exactly. That's another one my favorites so here we are in the Netherlands oh there we go I got the bat signal finally came through In Amsterdam i have to say I feel very proud of the setup that we have for this program I feel that it sounds virtually the same whether I'm at home base or wherever I am. And, uh, I think that is a part of what you get as your value consuming and contributing to the best podcast in the universe exactly. Yeah. You've got a nice rig. Nice rig. K five six three four whatever your numbers like you never remember yours. Yeah, no, you do with you have a KJ six LNG
07:29 K6LNG. That's not mine! KJ6LNG? Oh no, that's mine yeah... KJ6- That's not mine! KS5TX or something like that Not even close! KF5SLN KF5SLN I should remember that Yeah My wife doesn't even know my phone number What does she need to call you right now? No, but it's in her phone. This is how people are these days. It's in her phone and she says Adam doesn't need to know my phone. I'm like what if there was some kind of horrible accident and your phone... It's the DNS world! Yeah yeah. But I still know a lot of IP addresses by heart You don't need too. In some cases you do when you're doing technical stuff
