Re: [AG-TECH] PiGs on WLAN

[John Hodrien <johnh@comp.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Andrew Daviel wrote:

> I recently tried to use a laptop PiG on a WLAN. The venue client took an
> unreasonably long time (on a 1.2GHz thinkpad) to start, causing everyone
> to decamp to another building with a permanent AG setup.
>
>
> Brian Corrie noted that he had been caught if a real IP number from a
> previous location or wired LAN is saved in the node
> configuration rather than localhost. Then if the venue client can't
> contact the node manager it may take a very long time to timeout.
>
>
> Something to look out for - and it would be nice if these things did not
> block the main venue client process.
I've mixed 3G, wired and wireless all on the same laptop with AG2 and not
seen this behaviour.  AG over 3G was a thoroughly entertaining experience
though ;)

jh