On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:36:49PM +0100, Julian Bond wrote: > http://dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1483 > > Atheros has announced A/B/G and B/G chipsets that claim to have -105dBm > receive sensitivity. > > Is this feasible?
Possibly. There are many ways to increase receive sensitivity. If you are dealing with thermal noise, you want nice low noise amplifiers such as GAS-FETs. Folks with earthstations would even run liquid nitrogen to lower the tempature of the LNA electronics to get the thermal noise down, although I don't think I want a tank of nitrogen tied to my laptop. > And what's the effect on range of having a high receive sensitivity on > the client side but not on the AP side? I guess packets get there but not come back. :-) You ussually want both. Tim -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
