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updated the wordpress theme today since Bluehost deactivated my site due to some performance issues. weak man…weak.

It appears I’m not getting any sort of 802.11N benefit with my 5 year old 2nd generation apple airport extreme. I thought you could get up to 130Mbps. I can only think that there is a good amount of wireless interference on the 2.4Ghz spectrum. Performance really dropped 30ft away in another room with a few walls in the way. I think getting a dual band router will improve performance, especially if I can use the xbox on the 802.11A range. I would like to look to utilize the xbox360 as a TV tuner..but I really really do not want to run cat5e around the place. I currently can only run the airport extreme in either 2.4 or 5ghz, and the oldish airport express only supports 2.4ghz.

with my LAN connected PC doing a local iperf test

$ iperf -c 10.0.1.13
————————————————————
Client connecting to 10.0.1.13, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
————————————————————
[ 3] local 10.0.1.13 port 23572 connected with 10.0.1.13 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 5.30 GBytes 4.55 Gbits/sec

from my mbp > my desktop via 802.11N (B/G)

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 35.9 MBytes 30.0 Mbits/sec

from my mbp > my desktop via 802.11N (A)

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 57.4 MBytes 48.1 Mbits/sec

from readynas to my pc via gigabit ethernet LAN:

READYNAS:~# iperf -c 10.0.1.13
————————————————————
Client connecting to 10.0.1.13, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 21.8 KByte (default)
————————————————————
[ 5] local 10.0.1.250 port 3420 connected with 10.0.1.13 port 5001
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 127 MBytes 107 Mbits/sec

from my PC > readynas over gigabit ethernet LAN

[ 3] local 10.0.1.13 port 23672 connected with 10.0.1.250 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 31.7 MBytes 26.5 Mbits/sec

from my work win7 laptop > desktop PC via apple aiport express LAN interface (next room over)

$ iperf -c 10.0.1.13
————————————————————
Client connecting to 10.0.1.13, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
————————————————————
[ 3] local 10.0.1.45 port 1316 connected with 10.0.1.13 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 10.2 MBytes 8.52 Mbits/sec

from my work win7 laptop > desktop PC via 802.11N(B/G) (next room over)

$ iperf -c 10.0.1.13
————————————————————
Client connecting to 10.0.1.13, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
————————————————————
[ 3] local 10.0.1.46 port 1389 connected with 10.0.1.13 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 28.0 MBytes 23.4 Mbits/sec

from my work win7 laptop > desktop PC via 802.11N(B/G) (directly next to airport extreme)

$ iperf -c 10.0.1.13
————————————————————
Client connecting to 10.0.1.13, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
————————————————————
[ 3] local 10.0.1.46 port 1450 connected with 10.0.1.13 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 71.7 MBytes 60.1 Mbits/sec

Had some fun taking photos for Molly and Dennis. Here is a link to the full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/declan12/sets/72157629609019452

Our department had a big game against software engineering this past week. Was a lot of fun to shoot the game. Finally got to make some use out of my Canon 70-200L IS F2.8.

We won 1-0!

My BMW M3 is in the shop and I rented a BMW Mini Cooper S for the week. Its a pretty sweet ride, but the interior is laid out poorly.

I got the email I made it to round 2 in the Tigerblood Charlie Sheen intern contest! Woo! I’m sure everyone else made it…but still pretty funny!

Amazing Sunset from my balcony tonight!

We tried some hats on Conor, and he was cracking up the whole time!