-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This kind of crap really pisses me off. What a waste of spectrum to have a powerful AP when the clients won't be able to get their signal back to the AP without at least an antenna of some kind. It serves no purpose - any setup with an AP with an antenna and clients with diversity antennas will get at least two times the power to the clients as the clients will get back to it, so upping the AP power TX does nothing good except waste more spectrum.
On Tuesday January 20 2004 05:08 pm, John Foust wrote: > I'm a mini-WISP in a small town in the Midwest. > I was tracking down some interference on a Cisco AP-352 > today. It's incapacitated by deauthentication messages: > the log shows "2004/01/19 09:37:10 (Info): Deauthentication > from 00:d0:9e:f8:8f:b1, reason "Not Associated", many > per second. That mystery MAC isn't any of mine. > > The wired side is flooded with LLC packets from the AP with > a destination of 01:40:96:ff:ff:00. The AP is dropping > 30% of ping packets sent to it. > > So I did a little wardriving to try to find the mystery MAC. > Lookup says it's a 2Wire device. Sure enough, I find not > one but four APs in the neighborhood "2WIRE268" "2WIRE837" > "2WIRE870" "2WIRE877", all on default channel 6, where > none were a few months ago. > > Well, here's why they're showing up: > http://www.2wire.com/pr/pr12022003.html > > SBC recently rolled out DSL in my town. They offered a > rebate or a wireless AP / firewall. That press release above > says these home APs are up to 400 mW each, and that one > of 2Wire's exclusive distributors is SBC. > > It's their right to sell DSL, of course, but now they're > also polluting the 2.4 Ghz spectrum. These home APs were > lighting up the neighborhood with more power than any > of the WISPs in town. > > I'm still trying to figure out what to reset on the AP-352 > to turn off this LLC problem. I tried adding that MAC to > the denied list, but it only made it worse as the AP slowed > down even more, it seemed. > > - John > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless - -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] SkyCon Networks phone: (231)627-3528 http://www.skycon.net/ ICQ: 1796276 pgp: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~junfan/pgp.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQA3tHxFHZPcobeHxAQLvbwP/W6H1K9IH/PDELuhAZ+YNMj5YPjsPrh/d qyIT4vhFBxIRAsocxeXxdgQzTXmWqB/WaWMOoHpRjJUfCPLd8yKqQoxir/j7SBYo M13bdA2yRaZw707qLXGdKOYWKtBAnSj3Lg7ViTVE2UyfxvJFJHQGk6GiTaReuEy3 ol0732A7YKI= =eRxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
