[LUAU] wlan question

[Jim Thompson]

Third party firmware won't help if the issue is interference.

What will help is selecting the "strongest" AP, and then getting your  
AP on the SAME CHANNEL.

Try it, if you really want the math behind why it works, let me know,  
but right now I'm remote without an AC adapter, so I literally can't  
afford the time to write it down.

Jim

On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Maddog wrote:

> 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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