As Steve pointed out, distance is one key element. Could you tell us a bit more on your installation like distance, antennas used e.t.c.
My installation does not really apply, although I have fine bandwidth with Lucent/Avaya cards and 14 dB external antennas. Distance in my case is ridiculous, only about 300 metres.
The only additional layer I applied was IPSec to tunnel traffic.
Henry Psenicka posted some Information a few months back and there was an article in SysAdmin onhis wireless installation.
cheers
Erich
At 22:51 04.06.2003 -0500, you wrote:
Steve Wright wrote:Charles,
On the basis that there is some distance involved ; (an assumption)
My understanding is that some of the cheaper (dlink in particular) wireless gear has 'timing issues' when the A/Ps are physically far apart.
In the extreme, you will have to go to a proprietry fix, viz turbocell, or replace the A/Ps with something a little more tolerant of distance.
802.11 was never intended to travel great distances. Indeed it was part of the 802.11 specification to actually prevent (ha ha) this from happening - the reason for the proprietry RF connectors.
In summary, many standard 802.11 wireless cards will do great distances without getting flaky, but I have heard that the dlink gear is not of that category. Other cards such the Orinoco PC-cards combined with turbocell work very well indeed at distances up to 20km, and provide true data rates in the order of 9MBit/sec (I am told). I don't like the idea of proprietry *anything*, and I wish there was an open-source 'turbocell'.
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