The wifi antenna
Hello, How good is the Freerunner's wifi supposed to be. If I do an iwlist scan with my laptop two meters from the AP, I get link quality of 96/100. However with the Freerunner, even if I hold it right next to the AP's antenna I get a maximum of 51/100. Most APs that my laptop finds just fine show a link quality of 0 or 1 on the FR. Is that just what the FR's antenna is like or should I contact my distributor for warranty? Yogiz P.S. I accidently sent it from a different e-mail accound previously but I have no idea if it came through. If it did, sorry for the duplicate. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: The wifi antenna
You really shouldn't be attempting any tests whilst holding any wifi gear right next to other bits of kit. It's like getting two people to scream in each other's ears and wondering why they didn't report a good experiance. I'd re-run the tests from a different room to the one the access point is in and seeing what happens then. Joseph 2008/9/21 Yogiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, How good is the Freerunner's wifi supposed to be. If I do an iwlist scan with my laptop two meters from the AP, I get link quality of 96/100. However with the Freerunner, even if I hold it right next to the AP's antenna I get a maximum of 51/100. Most APs that my laptop finds just fine show a link quality of 0 or 1 on the FR. Is that just what the FR's antenna is like or should I contact my distributor for warranty? Yogiz P.S. I accidently sent it from a different e-mail accound previously but I have no idea if it came through. If it did, sorry for the duplicate. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: The wifi antenna
i got stuff like 294/100 On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really shouldn't be attempting any tests whilst holding any wifi gear right next to other bits of kit. It's like getting two people to scream in each other's ears and wondering why they didn't report a good experiance. I'd re-run the tests from a different room to the one the access point is in and seeing what happens then. Joseph 2008/9/21 Yogiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, How good is the Freerunner's wifi supposed to be. If I do an iwlist scan with my laptop two meters from the AP, I get link quality of 96/100. However with the Freerunner, even if I hold it right next to the AP's antenna I get a maximum of 51/100. Most APs that my laptop finds just fine show a link quality of 0 or 1 on the FR. Is that just what the FR's antenna is like or should I contact my distributor for warranty? Yogiz P.S. I accidently sent it from a different e-mail accound previously but I have no idea if it came through. If it did, sorry for the duplicate. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: The wifi antenna
Same here. Afaik, the wifi driver is far from reliable in things like signal strength measuring... -Marcel Am Sunday 21 September 2008 12:54:24 schrieb Yorick Moko: i got stuff like 294/100 On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really shouldn't be attempting any tests whilst holding any wifi gear right next to other bits of kit. It's like getting two people to scream in each other's ears and wondering why they didn't report a good experiance. I'd re-run the tests from a different room to the one the access point is in and seeing what happens then. Joseph 2008/9/21 Yogiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, How good is the Freerunner's wifi supposed to be. If I do an iwlist scan with my laptop two meters from the AP, I get link quality of 96/100. However with the Freerunner, even if I hold it right next to the AP's antenna I get a maximum of 51/100. Most APs that my laptop finds just fine show a link quality of 0 or 1 on the FR. Is that just what the FR's antenna is like or should I contact my distributor for warranty? Yogiz P.S. I accidently sent it from a different e-mail accound previously but I have no idea if it came through. If it did, sorry for the duplicate. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: The wifi antenna
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:00:04 +0200 Marcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. Afaik, the wifi driver is far from reliable in things like signal strength measuring... -Marcel Okay thanks everybody. At least I know it's not my problem then yet. I'll try to actually get the wifi working. I guess it's not the antenna then as I expected, I'll keep trying. Yogiz ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: The wifi antenna
Yogiz wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:00:04 +0200 Marcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. Afaik, the wifi driver is far from reliable in things like signal strength measuring... Okay thanks everybody. At least I know it's not my problem then yet. I'll try to actually get the wifi working. I guess it's not the antenna then as I expected, I'll keep trying. No... I can confirm that it is a common problem. -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
External WiFi Antenna
I've seen no mention of this elsewhere, but forgive me if this is a topic that's been covered already. But after disassembling my Freerunner, I noticed that near the external GSM antenna connector is an identical connector -- on the wifi module (about 1cm above the GSM one). I don't have a pigtail to attach it to a 2.4ghz antenna here, but I'm quite curious -- is this functional, or NC? If it is functional, why no hole like there is for the GSM connector? -- There seems to be nothing but plastic, so one could easily drill a hole to get access to it when the back cover is removed. Image of it: http://ext.tehinterweb.com/freerunner/back.jpg Forgive the blurry pic, my camera isn't fantastic and the lighting combined with my unsteady hand only made it worse :P The two connectors are on the bottom right. The WiFI module is where there is the red arrow pointing right, and the green block is on the metal (the internal WiFI antenna, seemingly). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
