We have also found that turning up the power on these babies helps them alot - of course you still need to check for the usual culprits first: - wireless phones in the house - Neighbors stomping on your signal - Cthulhu infested walls, etc
You don't need to load the latest firmware - or a rogue firmware to do this. There is a published hack that lets you do it from the current firware - see the TriLUG presentation from a few months back. Jon Carnes (running firmware 3.17 and loving it!) On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 01:53, Pat Regan wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Ralph Blach wrote: > > > I have a linksys wrtg54g wireless access point and it seem to have range > > wireless range problems. Is this normal > > for the linksys wireless access points. The two cards I have are > > wireless b cards, do I definately dont need > > G but better range would be nice. > > > > Any sugestions? > > > > It probably really depends on what the problem is. Out of the box my > WRT54G can reach (almost)everywhere in the house at full speed. This is > in an old home, and the room the router is in has very old plaster walls > (the kind with the thin, tightly spaced, wood slats behind the plaster). > > One room in the house is behind a curved plaster wall with a > chicken-wire-type mesh holding the shape of the plaster. In that room I > get a minimal but steady signal. Turning up the power on the transmitter > fixed that problem. > > If you want to turn up the transmitter power, you will have to upgrade to > an aftermarket firmware. I am running one of the newer Sveasoft > firmwares. I can't find the exact page I downloaded from, but this looks > like a good place to start: > > http://www.neuromancer.ca/wrt54g/ > > My rouer claims to be version: > > Alchemy-pre5.3 v2.04.4.8sv > > I have been running this firmware for 2-3 months on 3 routers with no > issues. > > Among the many things you can do with this firmware is turning up the > transmitter power. I believe stock is 28mw... The firmware I am running > claims I can turn it up to 251mw, but I believe the ceiling is actually 92 > or so. I have 2 of my routers running 56mw without any problems. I have > read of other people having heat issues at higher settings, YMMV. > > The things that most impressed me about this firmware was the support for > the layer 7 packet filter for QOS, and that you can configure VLANs > (although I don't think you can do much useful with VLANs on a 4 port > switch, the ethernet chip seems to support hardware VLANing). > > As someone else mentioned, you should also check if you are overlapping > with someone else's channel. That really kills performance. Use either > channel 1, 6, or 11. > > Noise from 2.4ghz chordless phones and whatnot hurts... My 3 routers are > in very noise free environments, and I get 500-600k/sec average throughput > over FTP. In my old apartment complex I was lucky to break 250k/sec on > any channel. There were 3 access points within range of me, none of which > were on an overlapping channel with me. > > Placement of your hardware helps quite a bit, too. Going straight through > a wall is much better than trying to go through at a steep angle... Every > wall you hit will soak off a bit of signal... > > How much range are you getting? And how many walls are you going through? > > Pat -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
