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Date:      Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:35:52 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Bad host-vased AP performace -- and qouple of questions about FreeBSD WiFi stack tuning
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In-Reply-To: <1681554189.20110809132747@serebryakov.spb.ru>
References:  <1151152206.20110808220720@serebryakov.spb.ru> <201108090829.18712.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <1681554189.20110809132747@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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There's a dBm to mW chart.

Don't forget antenna gain.

Adrian

2011/8/9 Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>:
> Hello, Bernhard.
> You wrote 9 Á×ÇÕÓÔÁ 2011 Ç., 10:29:18:
>
>>> (1) Hopping signal strength and total terrible WiFi network
>>> š š performance -- is it broken hardware or something strange in
>>> š š FreeBSD code?
>> Either the hardware really has some issues or the signal strength is
>> just too high? I've seen that.. can you try setting a lower txpower
>> for a test?
> šI'll try to reduce txpower, thanks.
>
>>> (2) Why card announce only 18Mbit, but not more?
>> Seems like you're looking at the "basic rates", if you examine the
>> beacon you should find another IE which contains all rates.
> šOh, yep, Tag number = 50. It is strange enough, that different WiFi
> šanalyzers shows only 18M for my network and 54M for others in such
> šcase. It seems, here is another (more standard? more widely used by
> šhardware SOHO soapboxes?) way to specify additional rates.
>
>> at it might even in half-dbm. The iwn(4) cards for example have a
>> txpowerlimit of 15 dBm which is 30 in half-dBm.
> šHow these dBm can be converted to mW? :) If it is "dBm" with 1W used
> šas base (30dBm), it means, that 15 dBm is only 32mW, that is 1/3 of
> š"standard" 100mW WiFi power.
>
> --
> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
>
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