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April 8, 2008

apple_tv

Don’t let your Apple TV get wide

Posted Apr. 8, ’08, 7:05 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple TV

Apple TV Sometimes I don’t pay enough attention to comments on my own entries (and no, I’m not talking about the spelling/grammar corrections). As I perused our overlords, I found something that seemed really familiar. It talked about Apple TV dropouts and syncing problems. Why did it seem so familiar? Because you gentle readers had already visited and partially solved the problem on your own, coming up with the same solution.

Turn off “use wide channels” on your router for N, or change to 2.4 Gh.

As you go up in the spectrum, range goes down… it’s a balancing act, higher frequency gives greater bandwidth, but your range decreases, and ability to transmit through concrete and wood (buildings) is decreased. Lower frequencies give great ranges, but lower bandwidth.

Reader Barry later says that actually helps. Clearly your first source for troubleshooting knowledge should be coming from our comments. It’s a real font of knowledge.


4 Comments

Igor said:

I should recommend the opposite - use wide channels and 5GHz! Why?

Let me argue a bit - your or mine or everybody's else first source for troubleshooting should be instruction booklet accompanying your device. Period.

Just kidding - nobody read them.

Better use some knowledgeable source. In this particular case I'd go to AppleInsider with greate series Exploring Time Capsule.

April 8, 2008 11:54 AM
davidf01 Author Profile Page said:

this summary of the work-around is not accurate or useful!

disabling wide-band is not necessary!

if u look at the what the minions were scribbling at your overlord's site, then you would have reported that the correct solution is simply to select a channel number that is greater than 40.

all hail the grand viziers at macworld!

ps: please ask the webmaster to create a new editorial tool for "how to" information: please utilize xml (at least OPML for structured 'to do' lists) so that rdf/OIL tools can be used to query and present /re-useable/ packages of information.

your webmaster should also consider utilizing LOM/SCORM to capture/harvest the knowledgebase from user comments.

these ideas are copyright interactix media corp - but you can use them to set an example (for apple to follow with webobjects+postgress !!) on its own help msessageboards.

April 8, 2008 12:31 PM
Bob Hicks said:

I believe that should be "fount" of knowledge, unless there's something new in font management that I haven't heard of.

April 8, 2008 2:47 PM
Dan Moren Author Profile Page said:

@Bob Hicks: Actually, they're the same word, just spelling variations.

Though, to be fair, I consider Lucida Grande to be the font of knowledge as well.

April 8, 2008 3:17 PM
sungoddess Author Profile Page said:

Does this mean you DO pay attention to spelling and grammatical errors pointed out in comments?

April 9, 2008 4:39 AM

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