On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:35:51 -0700, Chris Kacoroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Now that I have it working on the 5100, I have a question about what I > am seeing in wavemon. With a dell 1150 and drivers native to debian, I > get a link quality of about 25/92, signal is about 30% of the bar and > red, and I get both noise and a signal to noise ratio. > > I also have a dell 1300 that I am using with the ndiswrapper and the > latest xp drivers from dell. With this card the link quality is 100%, > signal level is -75db (red bar, about the same as the 1150), but there > is no noise bar.or signal to noise ratio bar. > > Which card is getting better reception? Which one should I keep? the > 1300 is supposedly a faster card (although it connected at the same > 11Mbits/sec -- I suppose this is all the base station in the library > will support). The 1300 does support scanning which the 1150 does not. > > Is there a website that can help me get up to speed on wireless on linux > and what are good numbers from a card/access point combination. I have > numbers, I just really do not know what they mean. > > thanks very much. > > ski > > --
I've seen the same thing here. Just a bit of background in my case. I have a WRT54G flashed with a later bios. With a Orinoco Classic Gold card that does 11b, I would normally see at the highest around a link quality of about 40%. I then went for linuxant and switched to using the wpc54g cards which I had purchased for my XP laptop. Instantly the quality of the link went way up and I could see the difference in downloads, web browsing, etc. Wavemon tells me I am now running at about 94% and it never varies from that. I also got numerous disconnects or periods of time when the Orinoco gold cards would somehow lose the AP I have. Often it would occur for minutes at a time either on debian or XP Pro. With the change in the drivers to the linuxant drivers, this simply does not happen. I can also set the WRT54G to operate at G only now and set the card to have the highest and most optimum performance threshold in its configuraiton. I have not really found a downside to the card yet except for a bit of manual nature sometimes bringing up the interface if I reboot the laptop. Luckily the reasons for rebooting the laptop are pretty slim since it suspends very well most times. Perhaps someone else can add a website or two they use. I use a few forums like dslreports.com and practicallynetworked.org for general support. There is also linksysinfo.org on the linksys stuff. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
