Which sflan nodes can you see from Treasure Island? The online map is missing some nodes, but I don't think any are near North Beach. http://woody.archive.org/nagios/cgi-bin/statusmap.cgi)
I think the nearest nodes, sflan4 or sflan14, don't have LOS and have high noise floors. Might be too much distance to the highest nodes with possible LOS like sflan11, but that may be your best bet. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Sensitivity vs signal strength discrepancy? Hello, I am having a problem connecting to nodes and I think it might be a signal strength issue. I have a 19 dB antenna connected to a 15 dBm pci card. The card is an SMC 2602 PCI card attached to my fedora box. In monitor mode with Kismet I can pick up a good 30 base stations from my location on the waterfront of Treasure Island (Three of which are SFLan nodes coming from the North Beach area). The problem is that I can not connect to anything. I have confirmed that my driver (ADMTek 8211) works by connecting successfully to the base station in my room. Anything else I just cannot connect to. The only reason I can think of is that the nodes around me are transmitting at a much higher power than I am. This would be the only reason I could think of why I can see them in monitor mode, but not broadcast to them. If they were transmitting at 200 mw they would have a good 8 dBm of power on me. Is this a reasonable diagnosis and would this mean that if I had a 200 mw card I could get my signal to them? Is there a reasonably priced 200 mw PCI card out there without having to drop $70 on a pcmcia Bridge card? Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Rob Forrest -- 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
