Agreed - I too have had the opposite experience, with a WRT54g doing much better on range than my old *P11S4.
That said, it's astoundingly easy to ratchet up the signal power on the 54g, but be careful not to go too high, since the signal gets dirty pretty quickly... Supposedly, the firmware released in August tweaks up the power, but I've not seen it myself. OpenWRT (an open-source alternative firmware) definitely boosts it by default, as well as making it easily adjustable, and closely mimics the original UI from Linksys. Shane O. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 1:54 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] linksys wrtg54g range problems I've had just the opposite experience, the wrt54g seems to do better than my old WAP 11 which died after a couple of years. The old WAP11 used to be in the center of my attic, and I could get a pretty good signal in most of the house, except in my bonus room, which was closer than most of the other rooms in the house. After it died, I decided to move the WRT54G to a second floor room at the northeast corner of the house where it would be cooler, and I now get a great signal both in the bonus room which is at the northwest corner, as well as in the first floor master bedroom which is in the southwest corner. On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:00:00 -0500, Joseph Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > I seem to be getting less range from my wrt54g's than from the WAP11's > which I replaced. I haven't done any side by side comparisons yet. > My WAP11's had narcolepsy problems and need to be power cycled every > 24hrs or so, but my wrt54g's haven't had that problem yet. > > Joe > > -- > Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization > LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 > Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > 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 > -- 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 -- 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
