> > 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, 

Yes :)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Glenn+Elmore+174+dBm&hl=uk&lr=&ie=UTF-8&inlang=ru&selm=3F4E248B.1040100%40sonic.net&rnum=2



> 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
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