Just what we need: A 400 mw device, that spews noise across most of the spectrum, coupled to a 12 db 60 degree wide beam antenna. Talk about blasting noise big time.
{{ sigh }} North East Oregon Fastnet, LLC 509-593-4061 personal correspondence to: mark at neofast dot net sales inquiries to: purchasing at neofast dot net Fast Internet, NO WIRES! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:07 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] $100 CPE? > I am sure Charles and some are you are thinking the same thing I am on the > 400mW unit, something just does not add up when manufactures are doing the > same power and the cost of the card is the more then the cost of the full > unit! I have not see this exact board but I have see a RTl8186 design that > looks just like this one that's 80mW-100mW where the software was changed to > output 400mW. When you use a basic power meter the "AVERAGE" power was 400mW > but this is a false positive. With this setup the true power output of the > DSSS channel did not go up very much. What did go up was the side lobes (2nd > to 5th!) where on channel 6 it took up a full 70Mhz where is can only use > 20Mhz! An basic average power meter looks at the full band when taking a > power reading which is confusing if you do not have a SA to back up the > info. > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/