{"id":22012,"date":"2011-03-25T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2016-09-17T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T08:13:53","slug":"the-most-random-wifi-signal-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-most-random-wifi-signal-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Random Wifi Signal Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally left Airport on when I got home from McDonald&#8217;s earlier and discovered that if I place my computer just so over the filing cabinet I have a pretty decent wifi signal! Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll try to find the source of the signal (it&#8217;s some sort of admin building) and get closer to it. If that works, I&#8217;ll be staying here all day to finish my taxes and send some more job applications.<\/p>\n<p>Wifi on my <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=9158\">new computer<\/a> has been an absolute nightmare. Apple, who pioneered wifi technology, had the not-so-bright idea of encasing an antenna in aluminum!\u00a0 I went to the Mac troubleshooting forums and discovered that I need two pieces of equipment to improve performance: an external antenna and an amplifier. Since I&#8217;ll be going back to cellular internet very soon and plan to get a similar setup for my next US adventure, I won&#8217;t be investing in wifi anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>I still think (know) that Macs are infinitely superior to PCs, but they are not infallible!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally left Airport on when I got home from McDonald&#8217;s earlier and discovered that if I place my computer just so over the filing cabinet I have a pretty decent wifi signal! Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll try to find the source of the signal (it&#8217;s some sort of admin building) and get closer to it. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,1037,1327,5,9,3,16],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-22012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-oregon","category-rufus","category-rving","category-tech","category-travel","category-usa","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}