Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:37:53 -0500 From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> Subject: Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed Message-ID: <20060310033752.GB31158@afflictions.org> In-Reply-To: <200603091105.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <20060308235940.GA64762@intserv.int1.b.intern> <200603082111.37010.joao@matik.com.br> <200603091105.38164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Thus spake Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@gsoft.com.au) [08/03/06 19:45]:
: In any case I imagine there is no point forcing it to use 54Mbit - it will
: negotiate the highest speed it can manage based on signal strength and
: hardware support (for the AP and the card) automatically.
Huh.
: I suspect forcing 54Mbit will either not work at all (because the signal isn't
: strong enough or your hardware doesn't support it), or it will negotiate a
: speed up to 54Mbit (which would result in no functional change).
Okay, this has me a bit curious, so I dug into it a bit more:
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
linksys 00:06:25:7b:25:3d 6 11M 35:0 100 E
MYSSID 00:12:17:85:9a:3b 11 54M 39:0 100 E
wahoo62 00:13:46:47:0f:0e 11 54M 4:0 100 EPS
I'd have thought that a S:N of 39:0 wouldn't be all that weak, no? Looking
at a post by Sam this past August, he calls 30:0 "very strong", though that
was for an 802.11b link. I'd think that the higher the number, the stronger
the signal. Is the above too weak to handle a full 54Mbps link?
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