From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4FC138010 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 147C421C062; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mx-out.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E33821C01E for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1942CC6E09 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([77.75.108.125]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id olVmzrT3MAE0 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0229C6E08 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wireless dropping connections Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:21 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.5.7-gentoo; KDE/4.8.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20121030132943.41800e1a@khamul.example.com> <20121101020736.0f389564@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20121101020736.0f389564@khamul.example.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201211010149.21290.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 214c631c-4959-4b0a-be9c-09a447a2f797 X-Archives-Hash: 3b01b0f50855d3f6630bd1eb6d06a115 On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:07:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: > that phone is the master base station for the other two slave > handsets. Unplug it, and the house phone stops working; this will > upset missus/daughter mightily as they can't speak to granny 10 time > a day anymore. [ don't ask, please don't ask :-) ] Ah, sympathy duly offered. Surely you could negotiate a period of a few minutes in which to conduct a test? At least then you'd know. -- Rgds Peter