Any development in regards to this issue and either barrier breaker or chaos calmer ?
On 05/20/2014 06:29 AM, Fernando Frediani wrote: > Hi Csmv, > Thanks for the reply. > > The behaviour that you are describing is exactly what I get here. > Sometimes I get one result at the setup time and sometimes while running > (or at reboot) I get another without any change on the configuration. > Also same thing about the sensitiveness and output power which seems to > vary. > I wouldn't think this is a hardware issue, but a software issue. For me > it seems that it simply doesn't obey the commands, or it changes the > antenna settings by itself for some unknown reason. > > Answering your question "antenna 7" are all three antennas. The number > you see in front of Available and Configured Antennas is the translation > to a binary number. So for example 7 = 111 (all three antenas up) , 4 = > 100 (the first antenna in the left) , 1 = 001 (the third antenna), and > so on. > > Would someone be able to confirm they have similar results with their > units and where to look for a possible fix ? > > Thanks > Best regards, > > Fernando > > On 20/05/2014 04:38, cmsv wrote: >> Hello >> >> >> On 03/11/2014 08:54 PM, Fernando Frediani wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Hopefully this is a easy one for you. >>> >>> I've got a TL-1043ND running Barrier Breaker (r39440). This router has 3 >>> detachable antennas and I have removed all of them in order to be able >>> to use an external Sectorial antenna to reach a few other points in a >>> mid-range distance. >>> I have connected this Sectorial antenna to one of the RP-SMA connectors >>> and left the other two without. >>> >>> On the /etc/config/wireless I'm using the following relevant lines: >>> >>> option diversity '0' >>> option rxantenna '0x1' >>> option txantenna '0x1' >>> >>> Which supposedly means it will only use that antenna port. Or if I want >>> to use the use the 3rd antenna port '0x4'. >> I have one one these routers and at some point i had a similar problem >> that i thought i had solved. >> >> system type : Atheros AR9132 rev 2 >> machine : TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND >> >> For the longest time and with AA r39154 i was only able to get 4 or 5 >> results when scanning for ssid's using a 15 dbi omni antenna. >> >> Since the router was and is in a very far remote location i was only >> able to play with the physical setup about 3 months ago. >> >> While playing with the configuration and having the router physically >> using the omni antenna with rp-sma connector number 2 (middle one) i did >> not get better results. I tried to change to connector 3 and also no >> better results until i moved it to connector 1 (counting from the left >> when you have the router front facing you). >> >> While setting it with connector number 1 and adjusting the configuration >> i was able to get 22 SSID's and so i though the problem was solved. >> About less than 2 months and without any other changes; the router went >> by itself to the previous bad performance and was detecting only about 4 >> or 5 ssid's. >> >> At the time the setup was : >> Configured Antennas: TX 0x1 RX 0x1 >> >> While: >> Available Antennas: TX 0x7 RX 0x7 >> >> >> Strangely it did work quite well for a while even tho it showed that the >> available antenna was not the one configured. >> >> However it did not last long and i have been trying to figure out why it >> stopped being able to detect those 22 ssdi's and why i don't see it >> working as well as before when it gave me 22 ssid scan results. >> >> According to: >> ~# iw phy phy0 info | grep -i ant >> Available Antennas: TX 0x7 RX 0x7 >> Configured Antennas: TX 0x7 RX 0x7 >> >> 0x7 is the same as wireless.radio0.txantenna=7 which is not 1, 2 or 3. >> or am i wrong ? Where exactly is antenna 7 ? >> >> My first question is: which antenna is this one ? Any of the 3 rp-sma >> connectors ? >> >> Changing wireless.radio0.diversity on and off also does not seem to help >> or change anything. >> >> Recently i updated the firmware to r40757 and there was no improvement. >> >> I also find it very odd that a nearby access point is able to detect >> this AP with SNR of 40 dbm while from the 1043nd side i only detect the >> other access point with 5 ~ 9 dbm SNR. >> >> To me this tells me that TX and RX is not working well for the 1043nd >> >> Can someone shed some light into this from their own experience or are >> these builds broken ? >> >> >>> Is it the correct way of using external antennas on these types of >>> routers ? Does using it in this way make sure there is no loss of signal >>> via the other ports ? >>> Or must the other two ports have some type of antenna even if it's a >>> different type like the original Omnis ? >>> Anyone had a similar experience and can help clarifying it ? >>> >>> Thanks and best regards, >>> Fernando >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openwrt-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
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