On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:12:49 +1100 (EST), Damien Miller wrote: >On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Clint Pachl wrote: > >> I have a similar problem in 3.9 with ral cards; very poor range. >> >> Linksys (ath) [ap] -> Level One (ral) = 5-7 meters >> Linksys (ath) [ap] -> Old 1MBit Intel (wi?) = +30 meters >> Level One (ral pci) [ap] -> Level One (ral pccard) = must be within 1-2 >> meters >> >> I tried changing the Tx Power, but that didn't have an effect. Because I've >> heard that the ral driver is very good, I was just assuming that my Level One >> cards have crappy transceivers and/or antennas. > ><30 metres is beyond crappy. I have never seen a ral(4) do that badly. >Do you have interference on the channel? You might want to try another >one... >
I live and work in a leaky faraday cage. The walls are 75mm thick re-inforced lightweight concrete on a steel frame. Notwithstanding that I get reasonable connectivity with a laptop (Thinkpad r50, ath wi-fi) about 20 metres up the driveway. My AP is a Soekris 4801 with a pci MSI adaptor that shows up in dmesg as: ral0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 11, address 00:13:d3:6b:a9:be ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 So not all ral cards are bad news for range. FWIW. & YMMV. >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
