Re: [slim] bigger antenna improvements?
Greg Klanderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When did you get your SB1? I got mine in January, and initially had problems with wireless signal strength which were solved with help from Rico at Slimdevices support. Here are the relevant emails: | That's pretty recent so I'm fairly certain your player will have the | purple colored card.. for some reason one of the sma connectors on the | card does not provide the same performance as the one on the opposite | side. Hopefully changing that will improve wireless performance for | you. | you may be able to remedy the wireless issues you are having.. use | it to unscrew the four screws on the bottom of the Squeezebox and | take the top off the unit. If there is a purple wireless card | inside, go ahead and disconnect the antenna tail from the wireless | card and reconnect it to the hole on the opposite side of the card, | farthest from the display. If the player has a white wireless card | or if you would rather send it in let me know. I got so fed up with my SB1's poor reception today that I followed the instructions above. Now I am staring at a white WLAN card with some interesting hand markings E and 1.5.6. P/N: 9514-3302ISC5 S/N: BF430461100018 Where do I go from here? The thingy looks to me like a standard PCMCIA card. I have a few of those floating around my household. Do I just replace it? Or is there anything more clever I can do? Thanks - ovr. PS: I know it's a SB1 problem coz I can happily operate any other 802.11b device in the same locale with perfectly adequate signal strength. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bigger antenna improvements?
When did you get your SB1? I got mine in January, and initially had problems with wireless signal strength which were solved with help from Rico at Slimdevices support. Here are the relevant emails: | That's pretty recent so I'm fairly certain your player will have the | purple colored card.. for some reason one of the sma connectors on the | card does not provide the same performance as the one on the opposite | side. Hopefully changing that will improve wireless performance for | you. | you may be able to remedy the wireless issues you are having.. use | it to unscrew the four screws on the bottom of the Squeezebox and | take the top off the unit. If there is a purple wireless card | inside, go ahead and disconnect the antenna tail from the wireless | card and reconnect it to the hole on the opposite side of the card, | farthest from the display. If the player has a white wireless card | or if you would rather send it in let me know. greg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] bigger antenna improvements?
my wireless SB1 is 2 floors away from base station and usually has a signal strength of about 20-22% - does anyone know how much of an increase i would get if i replaced its antenna with a high gain one? i've been getting dropouts, slimserver disconnects etc.. thanks ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bigger antenna improvements?
dijon wrote: my wireless SB1 is 2 floors away from base station and usually has a signal strength of about 20-22% - does anyone know how much of an increase i would get if i replaced its antenna with a high gain one? i've been getting dropouts, slimserver disconnects etc.. can't say exactly how much signal strength % a given antenna would give, but here are some things to try. the antenna template might give you enough boost on it's own and is basically free. Two strategies: 1) Increase the link bandwidth -deal with channels, interference etc. -use antenna reflector (see link) -use high gain antennas -upgrade both ends to 802.11g (using SB2 or adapter to wired) 2) Reduce link traffic -transcode to lower bitrate for the affected SB1 antenna reflector template: http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/ many others available. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bigger antenna improvements?
dean blackketter wrote: The thing that solved my coverage problems at home was a Belkin Pre-N router. Dean, Does the Pre-N multi-antenna, directionality gain magic also function for 802.11b connections, or is it just a G thing? Not disputing, just curious. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bigger antenna improvements?
Helped a LOT with the 802.11b card in my Powerbook. On Jul 15, 2005, at 9:43 AM, ron thigpen wrote: dean blackketter wrote: The thing that solved my coverage problems at home was a Belkin Pre-N router. Dean, Does the Pre-N multi-antenna, directionality gain magic also function for 802.11b connections, or is it just a G thing? Not disputing, just curious. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bigger antenna improvements?
Quoting dean blackketter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Helped a LOT with the 802.11b card in my Powerbook. your mileage may vary. When it is working, I do get an extra bar on the meter with my dlink 802.11b card in my HP. The drawback seems to be that if you ever have any little slip in service from your ISP, the Belkin will shut off the internal network as well and takes a while to reset. So, even if its just a glitch, I still get dumped for nearly a minute. I used a Linksys WRT54G before, and did not have this problem. However, with that I couldn't close the door without losing signal to the HP :) SB signal strength was up a little, but I wasn't really suffering from dropouts previously either. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
