bad analogy ... audio and RF are two very different domains alltogether ...
if you have other sources of RF in the immediate vicinity of intended operation that you cannot control then selectively increasing your Wi-Fi output power maybe your only choice to improve the SNR... ----- Original Message ----- From: "MAX Wireless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Erhan Hosca'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: RE: [nycwireless] wi-fi newbie question Aggggh.... Please folks, don't use the "Tim the Toolman's" approach to fixing wireless networks! "More Power" isn't very often the way to resolve the problems you may be having. Think of Wi-Fi as music. I know you can't hear Wi-Fi, but your AP can. So think like this, you have a stereo radio and it's off frequency a little and you can't hear the station well. Do you adjust the tuning or feed the poorly tuned signal into another amplifier to make it LOUDER? Wi-Fi is like music we can't hear. Like music we can hear if you have a neighbor that plays their music too loud and you turn up your music to drown them out, then your other neighbors will turn their music up, and so on, and so on, and so on until no one can make out their own music over the cacophony of noise. If you Wi-Fi isn't working at 10 ft, then there is something wrong with your equipment and turning up the volume isn't the way to fix it. Good luck. Larry The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. --Albert Einstein 3. Get a signal booster http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=38&prid=548 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
