MangoOrange™

For days, I've been finding a solution to segregate my wireless router from the congested wireless network that seems to only appears around night time, 7pm to 11pm.

Initially, I ask for support from Planex, the brand of my wireless router and they told me the only solution is to find out which channels are congested and avoid those channels. The person suggested NetStumbler, a tool to checkout your friendly wireless neighbourhood.

So I hung up the call and went to download it. After I installed, nothing works. No data shown. I called the support again. And, this time, he told me that Vista don't work with it. (Shucks!) Well, what's new. I asked the person is there any alternative and his replies is "Netstumbler is the best freeware you can get". Weird reply, I assume that's a no. I hung up again.

Guess what's next? Google! I google around, as always, and I found the simplest way to do it, without even installing a single software, thanks to Steve Clayton's blog. Here's how it works:

Just fire up your command prompt and type netsh. When the netsh> prompt show up, type:

wlan show networks mode=bssid

Now I'm able to see the invisible wireless neighbourhood and set it to the channel that nobody uses it.

written by mangoorange

Two days ago, I was thinking of trying out both Ubuntu 7.04 and Microsoft Vista Ultimate, so I went to download the ISO from ubuntu.com and MSDN. Naturally after that, I go on to burn the ISO into CD and DVD.

While I was burning my ISO files into CD/DVD, CDBurnerXP Pro kept prompting me that my disc aren't blank. When I try burning my data files from hard disk, it works. So I thought, "Why not I try to mount the ISO and burn the files from the Virtual Disk?". So I went ahead with that idea.

Sadly, I can't boot any of them. After a long period of trial-and-error, I decided to install Nero and burn the ISO directly. It works! Most importantly, not only successfully burn the ISO but it can boot from the CD/DVDs.

So the moral of the story, don't burn your bootable programs from Virtual Disk. It won't work.

written by mangoorange