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Originally Posted by PocketHead
This hostel which I'm staying in had heaps of dropouts until I went downstairs and discovered the reception was better. In Australia you never get free internet anywhere, here it is great 
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Heh, same in the US. Funny that it's easier to find wifi in the developing world than the developed world.
I found (in Mexico and Central America) that wifi interference was only half the problem; with great frequency various places along the trunk upstream would breakdown. With even more frequency, somebody next door would start a torrent download and either bog down the connection to near-uselessness or destabilize the router (it's amazing to me that home router hardware still has trouble with bittorrent). This effect will be much worse when flooding the router with a large upload rather than downloads.
I often had trouble getting my pictures uploaded to flickr, and tended to queue them up until I stayed at a place that finally had reliable internet.
Jeff
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