On Friday 10 March 2006 14:07, Damian Gerow wrote: > : 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? Which SSID? MYSSID? The linksys one looks like b only. The other 2 look like g.
Are you sure your card supports g? It may be able to see a g AP but only connects and b speeds. What does ifconfig -m ath0 say? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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