On 20.09.2014, Doug wrote: > First: Higher power does NOT increase noise in the signal. It just increases > the amount of > radio frequency energy in the general area, which may be "noise" to some > _other_ piece of equipment.
Yes, you are right. I was imprecise. What I meant is that barely increasing Tx power is not verly likely to help. Increasing it over the limit does more harm than good, leading to unstable connections and data loss. The Tomato firmware wikibook says: "Transmit Power: Sets the transmit power in milliwatts. High settings may cause nonlinearity in the transmitter causing loss of data, interference to other users and channels, and a high “noise floor”. It may also overheat and shorten the life of the transmitter." I have experienced that myself while experimenting with it. A subtle increase did no harm, but was no improvement either. Increasing the Tx power further lead to a big amount of retransmissions and decreased speed. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
