On Sun, April 22, 2007 12:15 am, Karl Cunningham wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> So my question is this. Is there anything I need to do on the Myth box >> and >> perhaps the laptop to tell _their_ d-link cards that we're now doing the >> 108G thing? And, yes, I have googled. But I know there are better >> googlers >> on this list. >> >> It would be nice to avoid drilling the ceiling for cat 5. My wife >> *likes* >> the Myth box just fine, especially when we don't have to fight the kids >> to >> wrestle her air time (the Friday Newshour, por exemplar) away from the >> kids. But every time I put time into improving it, she gets that >> withering >> "it's JUST TV" look. > > You should be able to check the actual speed with iptraf on the server. > The 802.11 stuff cuts back the speed if the signal strength is low. I > did a test recently with a laptop, running iptraf while downloading a > large file from an ftp server on the lan. Speed started dropping about > 30' away. At 60-75' it had slowed to a crawl. > > EMBV (everyone's mileage is bound to vary). > > Karl
Hmm ... my router also has a "boost power" check box. I'll goose that and see what happens. Because you didn't mention it, I am surmising that there is NOT any 108G mojo to apply to the receiving stations' drivers. Thanks for the tip. <"too much to know" is my Linux mantra> -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
