On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:15:19 -0800, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:00:12 +0800, William Kenworthy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What kind of router? I have found that position is very important. > > Place base station well away from other objects (use an extension cable > > if needed), and above desktop clutter etc > > > > e.g., one monitor near the wireless base, + users body in line of sight > > means very poor (but usable signal). User moves out of the way, signal > > moves to v.good. Raise base above monitor, signal improves again. > > > > BillK > > Bill, > Yes, I've done that sort of stuff already. That, along with messing > with antenna direction and orientation helped, but it's still not > reliable. > > Does that signal strength number in iwconfig mean anything? What > sort of value to do you get? > > Thanks, > Mark >
I got my laptop working. It's a different wireless chip (Broadcom vs. Realtek in my wife's machine) and then wandered around the house getting some numbers: -13db 12" from the router -36db here at my desk -50db in my son's room -63db in my wife's office -73db in the kitchen My wife see's around -58db in her office where I'm seeing -63db, so they're close. Even at -73db in the kitcen I was able to link the aptop to the router and get to the net using Mozilla. However I cannot depend on my wife's machine to be a reliable file server for serving up music files realtime. Very often all the machines in the house just stop receiving music... - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
