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My dad’s a camper. Well… sort of. He spends about a month per year camping in his RV. He’s got a laptop. It has a wireless internet connection. But he can rarely use it because his “wireless campgrounds” tend to have a single WAP at one end of the campground. In their office. With cheezy little antennas. And a picnic table outside so you can drag your laptop out to it and do your surfing there. It’s a little less than ideal. So I’ve set out to fix this for my dad. I’m going to make dad a beefy antenna for his RV. The antenna will have a USB wifi dongle inside it so there’s VERY low RF loss. A USB cable will then plug into his laptop. That’s the plan, anyway.

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If you read this post, then you know how frustrating and exciting this whole thing has been. I got the TV. HOORAY! I got it home, started loading the TV stand and then…
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Steve figured this out.

I finally got my gallery fixed up. In a nutshell, it worked fine for normal users. But for someone trying to upload stuff, it was a pain in the neck. It would get a few images into an upload and just hang.

The quick fix was to add server.network-backend = “writev” into the lighttpd.conf

More details are available at Steve’s site.

Steve deserves the credit for this. I’m simply linking it to help anyone else that happens to have the same issues.