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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:32:10 -0500
From:      Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed
Message-ID:  <20060311023210.GF10106@afflictions.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603102230.18377.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <200603100329.49920.joao@matik.com.br> <20060310065614.GK31158@afflictions.org> <200603102230.18377.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Thus spake Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@gsoft.com.au) [10/03/06 07:09]:
: > I've been doing some testing with kismet throughout the night, and I've
: > been seeing consistant signal strengths around -50 to -60dBm, with noise
: > sitting pretty consistantly at -96, and its strongest reading (after about
: > six hours) is -90dBm.  At least, if I'm to believe what Kismet is telling
: > me.
: >
: > This machine is about five feet (albeit through a concrete wall) from the
: > AP. A wireless laptop that's about twenty feet (again, through concrete)
: > has connected at 54Mbps without issues.
: 
: What happens if you exit Kismet and try an associate?

That's what I did originally, which prompted the thread: a cold-boot into an
associate gives me 11Mbps.  I was only running Kismet to help diagnose the
problem.



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