From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 11:46:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD07106564A for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:46:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2378FC08 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:46:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from localhost ([71.249.92.53]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K5A0047C60VI6I2@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:46:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:46:06 -0400 From: David Gurvich In-reply-to: <4938c7f50808071619p56ccaf6dice06b62e26a85e3a@mail.gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080808074606.2743534a@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <4938c7f50808071619p56ccaf6dice06b62e26a85e3a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Wireless (Edimax EW-7128g / ral) to work on FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:46:13 -0000 I'm not sure of your settings, but increasing tx power is only good for transmitting and will increase noise, hurting reception. Your S:N numbers look quite poor, I rarely get any handshake when signal is that bad. I'm surprised you managed to get a dhcp offer. Have you tried this computer in the same location as the windows machines? How far from the router are you compared to those?