The reson for me is that there is only 100mW (as a maximum) legal here. When i would use 400mW i could get a fine for it. But when i use lets say 200mW the chance i get a fine is not that big.
Greetz, Michiel de Jager On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 00:55 -0400, John Cianfarani wrote: > >I do not see why to buy a 400mW card and reduce to half the power…. > > > > Consider if you ran a hotspot in your coffee shop… you wouldn’t want > the signal to be strong enough for the coffee shop down the street to > be able to use your nice strong powerful signal… Only enough power > needed to cover your little area. > > Or better example if you were deploying several wireless APs to cover > an area you may not want the strong signals from one to cause noise on > another wireless AP. > > > > John > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Giorgio Ducci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Output (mwatt) of a minipci wireless > card > > > > > Hi, > > I have the same mPCI card. Yes, as Scott said you can reduce the TX > (Transmission) power in the webgui, under " interfaces" when you > "assign" a new one (says OPT1) you can tune the TX power from 0 to 99 > %. As you probably already know this card reach 400mW at 6Mb of > transmission (read spec ). I do not see why to buy a 400mW card and > reduce to half the power....Anyway it works fine. > Cheers > Giorgio > > > > On 9/20/05, Michiel de Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if i buy this one: > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.19/it.A/id.386/.f > > i would be able to reduce the TX power to around 200mwatt? > And is this done in a webinterface or do i need to do some 'dirty' > handwork? > > greetz, > Michiel de Jager > > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 14:03 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: > > TX Power? Yes. > > > > Scott > > > > > > On 9/19/05, Michiel de Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > A little question: is the output power of a minipci wireless card > > > (Atheros) controllable in pfsense? > > > > > > > > > Greetz, > > > Michiel de Jager > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
