loud as those close in."
I was getting dropped packets at my house. The system is mostly made up of old
Aironets. I had already tried messing with the Frag & RTS settings with limited success.
Dropping the power down (Aironets have a limited ability to do this in major steps)
on the close links cut my packet loss by a factor of about 20. My loss was really bad
on a 4.5 mile link with marginal LOS, about 20% loss.
Using all SmartBridges this should be easy to accomplish. Drop the power at the
client end while watching the AP side for RSSI /Qual. to drop. Once it starts dropping,
up the power a bit to get it back to where it was or a level you can live with.
The key here is to try to get the RX signal strength at the AP balanced. This way
every client will be "heard" without the close in sites "overloading" the reciever.
I guess to sum it up, you've almost got to get a "feel" for it.
Dan Petermann Wyoming.com
At 01:54 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, Brian Winters wrote:
Really? That's an interesting point I hadn't really thought of. So do you turn down the power until you reach certain signal strength? If so, what is that strength? We have several links where we put up our standard antenna and have 100% signal. I am sure that we could probably turn down the power and either remain at 100 or maybe drop to 95% or something. Im interested in why this would allow better throughput tho. Is there any technical reason that I am too stupid to understand or is it just "PFM"?
-Brian
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Petermann Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [smartBridges] Power Management
Are any of you managing your power levels?
What I mean is are you turning down the power on your close shots or are
you setting everything to 30 dBm?
The reason I ask is I recently turned down the power on a few links (set up before I was hired) and improved thru put and packet loss dropped.
Dan Petermann Wyoming.com
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