Wednesday, October 22, 2008

PAWNeD Phenomenon

Periodically Abnormal Wireless Network Disconnected,

A phenomenon that the wireless internet connection that get dc-ed by itself after a short period of online, and connected back after another period of time, which formed a square wave on the Time based connectivity graph.














It might not be a problem for a net surfer, since connection is just fine for half of the time. Yet some other online activities like download, instant messages or online gaming needed a continuous connection to achieve. PAWNeD would be an obstacle for these activities, since there is missing connection after a certain time of online.



Unlike other lousy connection problem, it is not caused by low internet speed. The speed it's work just fine, not until it's DC-ed. Yet the causes is unidentified.

Some major condition if you got PAWNeD:

-you are using wireless connection and you dont know who is the host

-connecting to the access point wont be a problem, problem is during the usage.

- during online your connection suddenly turned "limited or no connection ", this rotation would go over and over again.









-the internet speed usually is working just fine, such that latency not involved in the problem.

-you might had bit-torrenting just before PAWNeD happened. It sounds unrelated but the victim did have this condition just before being PAWNeD



So far their is no an absolute solution for the problem, but it is believed that the phenomenon would gone by itself after few days. So it would causes problem for maybe only one week or two.


By the way,
and i got PAWNeD.


few days of no IM, no WoW, no video streaming that makes me bored

tat's why i got loads of time to crap some shit here :D

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