[geeks] Wireless Problems Redux

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: sammy ominsky <s at avoidant.org>
> Date: 2004/07/28 Wed PM 11:16:15 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: [geeks] Wireless Problems Redux
> 
> Just wanted to thank Nadine publicly.
> 
> Some of you may recall my complaints about wireless range on the Geeks 
> list a few weeks ago. Well, I got antennae then, after Nadine suggested 
> it, things were somewhat better, and I was happy.
> 
> Yesterday I installed the sveasoft firmware onto my WRT54G for other 
> reasons, and lo and behold once I was inside playing around, I set one 
> antenna to TX and the other to RX, boosted xmit power just a bit (still 
> within legal limits), and *BAM*, _TWICE_ the signal strength I had 
> before.

Just be careful of burn-out - I've heard that running the AP at the software adjustment max (83 mW?) will burn it out - this was on the Sveasoft website, IIRC.