I'd like to share what I have learned about that hack: it can be useful, and it has a price... throughput. I have more than a couple wap11's in my neighborhood and while using the hack, I found I would get really shotty throughput while on remote AP's... I couldn't figure it, I lost much sleep because I couldn't stabilize my network. When it was stable, I would have a solid 100 kbps link (should have been much faster). I shuffled channels, I rearranged antennas, I shuffled more channels, I moved more antennas. All adjustments fixed everything for short periods of time when I finally looks to my radio settings. when I wiped out all evidence of the hack I got good speeds that were stable until out of nowhere the link would just go down and not come back up.. what I have learned is that for whatever reason, 100mw kills your throughput, factory settings are too weak to either drive my amps or cover the distance (.3 - .5 miles w/ LOS). What is working great is the middle of the road: CF for all channels seems to increase the signal but not distort my signal. You can run through the different settings and see their effects using netstumbler and you can see what the full hack MIGHT be doing to your signal. It doesn't do bad things to all WAP11's all the time, but CF seems to work really well. My link is rock solid and my clients at the other end of the hood are stable and pulling 1300 kbps. From what I remember reading, CF is 33mw and the deault setting are 3.3, but I don't know much about converting. I hope this helps someone out there that can't figure out what is wrong with their wap that doesn't wanna think that hack could be at fault.
My question for the group: is anyone having difficulty from the heat? My AP's are in the attics and I'm seeing some bad things going on while the sun is beating down on these roofs. more packet loss (nothing huge, but a definite increase) and more than a couple restarts. when observing, the only symptom I could see was that the waps were REALLY hot (so was I) in those attics. When the sun goes down and things cool off these things go away. just wondering if anyone is seeing anything like this. thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Amtel WAP11 utilities? > > Does anyone know where I could find a copy of the Amtel > > utilities? > > Google: snmpv1743.exe (and it's ATMEL btw). > > > In particular, I'd like to see about increasing the > > power output of a WAP11 a bit. > > Try the list archives. Not for v2 hardware. > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
