[LUAU] wlan question

[Maddog]

You might try a third party firmware. There are several out there. I know 
that fixed an issue i had with my Linksys router and it added so many cool 
new features. Google for third party firmware for your model. There are 
quite a few hacks sprouting up out there for D-link too.

MD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Newsham" <newsham at lava.net>
To: <luau at lists.hosef.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: [LUAU] wlan question


> I've been having some wlan issues here off and on for a while and it seems 
> like it has been getting worse.  Where I'm at I can see about about 7 APs, 
> including my own.  Sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less.  Typically 
> the other APs are on channels 2,6 (several), 10 and 11 (several).  I have 
> tried various channels trying to avoid the crowds, usually 8, 9 or 4 
> (since the 6's and 11's are closest to me, at least in terms of signal 
> strength).  I am sitting about 8 feet from my AP right now and still 
> getting 15-25% packet loss! I'm receiving about -57db from my AP and -79db 
> from the nearest competing AP, so its not clear to me that the 
> interference is necessarily coming from other APs.  One other thing to 
> note, sometimes I start getting a lot of drops (usually when I'm further 
> away from my AP) and resetting the AP (d-link, 802.11g) seems to "fix" the 
> problem for a while.
>
> Any ideas on what might be causing the poor performance?  Is this normal 
> performance for this amount of congestion?  Is this due to a cheap AP? Is 
> there anything I can do to track down the interference or make adjustments 
> that will increase my reliability?
>
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
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