From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 1 14:15:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A32716A4CE; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 14:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhub.intercaf.ru (mailhub.intercaf.ru [195.96.167.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6533243D58; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 14:15:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lesha@intercaf.ru) Received: from webmail.intercaf.ru (mail.intercaf.ru [195.96.167.50]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailhub.intercaf.ru (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i71EF1O4019078; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 18:15:01 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from lesha@intercaf.ru) Received: from 192.169.41.44 (proxying for 210.24.210.212) (SquirrelMail authenticated user lesha) by webmail.intercaf.ru with HTTP; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 18:15:02 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <59571.192.169.41.44.1091369702.squirrel@webmail.intercaf.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040731.171229.29785775.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <51001.192.169.41.44.1091266090.squirrel@webmail.intercaf.ru> <20040731.171229.29785775.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 18:15:02 +0400 (MSD) From: lesha@intercaf.ru To: "=?koi8-r?Q?M.=9AWarner=9ALosh=9A?=" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: =?koi8-r?b?UmU6mlByb3hpbZpXaUZpmmNhcmRzmmFueW9uZT8=?= X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:15:16 -0000 > : Today I have bought myself new Proxim Orinoco Gold b/g card > : to replace my old Lucent Orinoco b one. > : > : New card is working fine with the ath driver, but... > : Signal strength and radio perfomance are very nasty. > : > : Where my old card gave me signal strength of 106 > : new one gives only 51. (that is 5m away from AP) > : (same AP, same channels, same everything) > : > : It is not working even in next room to the AP. > : > : What can be the problem, or just Proxim got lame engineers? > > Lame antenna. Also, the signal strength, as reported by FreeBSD, can > be radically different when the RF levels are exactly the same. > Different firmware has different formulas to convert the values that > are reported. Also, different antennas have different gains. No. It seems like antenna is not the problem. I have tried connecting external one today, same poor perfomance. But... When I do run Windowz there are 2 different ways this card behaves. a) Managed by Windowz WiFi stack: - same poor perfomance, disconnections, etc b) Managed by supplied Proxim's client utility: - good link strength, works as it should Seems like client utility is doing some tweaks on the card (switching it's power level may be?) Actually I have bought myself Buffalo G54 card today. It is 3 times (!) cheaper then Proxim Orinoco and works perfectly with NDISualtor (it is Broadcom based): device = 'BCM4306(??) 802.11g Wireless NIC' Just thought I should warn everyone - do NOT buy crappy Proxim. Cheers, AL. p.s. Buffalo costs 54 singapore dollards here (it is about $32 usd) I should say it is very cheap for B/G card! p.p.s. I was looking for a G card with external connector, seems like now I have found one. Tomorrow will go buy a pack of them for my friends, to bring with me when I will go back to Russia.