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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:29:49 -0300
From:      JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
Subject:   Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed
Message-ID:  <200603100329.49920.joao@matik.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20060310052740.GD31158@afflictions.org>
References:  <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <200603101540.21112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060310052740.GD31158@afflictions.org>

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On Friday 10 March 2006 02:27, Damian Gerow wrote:
> Thus spake Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@gsoft.com.au) [10/03/06 00:19]:
> : > 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?=20
> : > 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?
> :

generally it is not the signalstrength which let you connect at higher spee=
ds,=20
it is the noise level. So you can have a low signal without noise and you m=
ay=20
connect at high speed and on the other hand you may have a strong signal an=
d=20
high noise and the speed is 1Mb or do not connect/associate at all



> -----
> ath0: flags=3D28943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,PPROMI=
SC>
> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe20:71ed%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> 	inet 192.168.132.146 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.132.255
> 	ether 00:0f:b5:20:71:ed
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <monitor>
> 	status: associated


tha card default in autoselect is probably 11b so it do not connect at 11g=
=20
until you configure it to

ifconfig mode 11g media OFDM/54mbps

should do the job,, tha card still connect at lower speed depending on what=
 it=20
can with the selected AP

in order to not jumping around you can try setting bssid _MAC_desired_AP_

so long as your card is in monitor mode you may not connect nor get traffic=
 at=20
all

Jo=E3o









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