-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 April 2004 15:32, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Rob Genovesi wrote: > > look at the "bright" side ... if with high output cards all over the > > place, pretty soon we won't need lightbulbs anymore - everything will > > glow in the dark. > > I thought the goal was to abuse the commans until is became unusable. >
I am not sure if I get this all right but if someone makes a 500mw card I would buy them without thinking a second. You can live with 50 or 100mw cards only in clean environments or where you are operating alone and can control your APs. The Prism 200mw saved our asses lots of times and it is a great card in comparism to others and that not only by its power but also by its hostap and monitor capability. But often you have an Orinoco card with low signal, interrupted even sometimes. An AMP is too expensive for the client. So what do you do without a stronger signal. That is where prism hooks perfectly in. The interference problems will grow as network density grows. Also you can get longer ranges. The Orinoco card may do max 20-25 km in a clean area and with a 24DB directional on each end but two prism 200mw cards make 35-40km point-to-point links. So you may say the noise level grows also. So what I tell you if I can stay connected with it .. and with any other card I can not. Also unix gateways which are having traffic on the card are showing often buffer problems. I never saw this kind of problems with Prism cards. Both use the exact same driver on FreeBSD. And sorry for what I say now but this lightbulb shit is nonsense, your cellphone can put out up to three watts when calling or ringing and you do not attend it with your toe tips right? so tell me that a 300MW card makes you glow ... Did you ever measured your microven when your kid is waiting in front of it? But anyway, if you don't like the 300mw cards and get scared of them you can send them all to me, I take them for free :) HM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfIJlEiU/CIIkIsgRAtO2AJ9+LjTWAgG1A1CjpnbLX8ufpuoMrgCeO2Wp GycR6OfmIff45jjqqsGBdL0= =ngvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
