On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:23:23 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:07:33 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
(...) >> BTW, there appears to be a significant problem with your wifi channel >> selection. That is, >> >> 1. There are actually 3 useable channels in the wifi spectrum: 1, 6, >> 11. >> (Yep, regulations changes from country to country, but...) By >> operating at 9th channel, you will be interfering with signals in >> both 6th and 11th channels. Hence, prefer either 1, 6, or 11. >> >> 2. If you want a higher range, prefer lower channels. That is, 1st >> channel will reach further distances compared to 11. > > That's a very good idea. I will try -time permitting- to set the AP in > another channel. Lower ones (1-6) seem to be with less interferences > from other neighbour APs I have close to me. Will post any finding :-) Well, I could finally solve this annoying problem with the wifi adapter. I first tested with channel 1 and 2 (nothing), with channel 1 and no security at all (nothing) and also with channel 2 and WEP (nothing)... I started to think in a hardware problem. And so it was... now this card is working *perfectly* with the suggested driver (brcmsmac). The guilty here was the AP itself (the Thomson DSL router). Dunno why the same AP works fine with a second wifi card but it seems to render completely inoperative when joined the embedded broadcom wifi card. What a pair of dumb devices! I brought another AP (a Zyxel 660HW-D1 DSL router) with the usual configuration (channel 9 -it was setup to "auto" and it selected this channel automatically so I left untouched- and wpa-psk encryption) and to my surprise the broadcom card now connects in miliseconds with a 100% of coverage (from the next room!), link is stable and download speed is very fast. It seems a complete different card! Occam's razor hits again... simplest things tend to be right ones. Did I already say I hate wireless connections? Nevermind, I'll repeat again: I-hate-wireless-connections }:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.01.20.43...@gmail.com