On 10/26/07, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/25/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get good signal strength within my house. Never checked across floors. > > I get decent (20% signal strength) connectivity (it claims full 60 > mbps, my broadband works at full 256kbps speed) with my router on the > upper floor and my tablet on the ground floor. > > What I'm wondering is, will the signal/range improve or degrade if I > place one antenna horizonal and the other vertical, assuming both are > active if I've enabled only WiFi-G mode? will have to check this > weekend...
If you are planning to install dd-wrt - it allows you to increase the transmission power of WRT54GL. A figure in the near vicinity of 70-80 mW is what is recommended and gives good result. Anything higher might be bad for the hardware (max being 251 mW). The default transmission power is around 28 mW. The dd-wrt faq has good hints on how to increase range: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Index:FAQ#How_high_should_I_set_the_transmit_power_on_my_router.3F Random thought - another factor limiting the range of your wireless router might be the range of your wireless laptop/desktop ! - it needs to reply back, right ? :-) saha -- -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
