HI In my experience its not always about mw transmitted. Using a proper antenna and a radio with decent receive sensitivity usually gets the job done better and you don't interfere and piss off your neighbours(who call the authorities to give you a fine, because you are polluting the band).
Shouting the loudest doesn't always work(unless you are going for distance, in which case you would use 2x 400mw and very directional antennas) Remember also that the devices you are going to be connecting to will also have to transmit at 400mw in order for you to establish a connection. Most devices transmit at 100mw .. so you will see the ap but you will never be able to associate. Ivan. -----Original Message----- From: Michiel de Jager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2005 10:32 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] Output (mwatt) of a minipci wireless card The reson for me is that there is only 100mW (as a maximum) legal here. When i would use 400mW i could get a fine for it. But when i use lets say 200mW the chance i get a fine is not that big. Greetz, Michiel de Jager On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 00:55 -0400, John Cianfarani wrote: > >I do not see why to buy a 400mW card and reduce to half the power.... > > > > Consider if you ran a hotspot in your coffee shop... you wouldn't want > the signal to be strong enough for the coffee shop down the street to > be able to use your nice strong powerful signal... Only enough power > needed to cover your little area. > > Or better example if you were deploying several wireless APs to cover > an area you may not want the strong signals from one to cause noise on > another wireless AP. > > > > John > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Giorgio Ducci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:57 PM > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Output (mwatt) of a minipci wireless > card > > > > > Hi, > > I have the same mPCI card. Yes, as Scott said you can reduce the TX > (Transmission) power in the webgui, under " interfaces" when you > "assign" a new one (says OPT1) you can tune the TX power from 0 to 99 > %. As you probably already know this card reach 400mW at 6Mb of > transmission (read spec ). I do not see why to buy a 400mW card and > reduce to half the power....Anyway it works fine. > Cheers > Giorgio > > > > On 9/20/05, Michiel de Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if i buy this one: > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.19/it.A/id.386/.f > > i would be able to reduce the TX power to around 200mwatt? > And is this done in a webinterface or do i need to do some 'dirty' > handwork? > > greetz, > Michiel de Jager > > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 14:03 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: > > TX Power? Yes. > > > > Scott > > > > > > On 9/19/05, Michiel de Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > A little question: is the output power of a minipci wireless card > > > (Atheros) controllable in pfsense? > > > > > > > > > Greetz, > > > Michiel de Jager > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
