Wouldn't turning down the power increase hidden node issues? If you have a close in shot and crank the power levels down then wouldn't your distant shots have problems seeing the close in clients?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Power Management > My 2 cents worth... > When you have the power up more than needed you are also turning the noise > up, similar to over modulation that CB (citizen band radio) operators like > to do sounds real bad. Not identicle in theory but the best way I can > describe it without showing it first hand. I would only adjust power on > clients though since the AP is servicing many different situations all at > the same time. > Joe > RiverNet > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Winters > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Power Management > > > Really? That's an interesting point I hadn't really thought of. So do > you turn down the power until you reach certain signal strength? If so, > what is that strength? We have several links where we put up our > standard antenna and have 100% signal. I am sure that we could probably > turn down the power and either remain at 100 or maybe drop to 95% or > something. Im interested in why this would allow better throughput tho. > Is there any technical reason that I am too stupid to understand or is > it just "PFM"? > > -Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Petermann > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [smartBridges] Power Management > > Are any of you managing your power levels? > > What I mean is are you turning down the power on your close shots or are > > you setting everything > to 30 dBm? > > The reason I ask is I recently turned down the power on a few links (set > up > before I was hired) > and improved thru put and packet loss dropped. > > Dan Petermann > Wyoming.com > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
