From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 10 06:32:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EEE716A420 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:32:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FD243D53 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:32:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) Received: from anb (anb.matik.com.br [200.152.83.34]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2A6W3x4082691; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:32:04 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from joao@matik.com.br) From: JoaoBR To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:29:49 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060308231529.GA2049@afflictions.org> <200603101540.21112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060310052740.GD31158@afflictions.org> In-Reply-To: <20060310052740.GD31158@afflictions.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603100329.49920.joao@matik.com.br> X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (msrv.matik.com.br) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Damian Gerow Subject: Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:32:17 -0000 On Friday 10 March 2006 02:27, Damian Gerow wrote: > Thus spake Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@gsoft.com.au) [10/03/06 00:19]: > : > Okay, this has me a bit curious, so I dug into it a bit more: > : > > : > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS > : > linksys 00:06:25:7b:25:3d 6 11M 35:0 100 E > : > MYSSID 00:12:17:85:9a:3b 11 54M 39:0 100 E > : > wahoo62 00:13:46:47:0f:0e 11 54M 4:0 100 EPS > : > > : > I'd have thought that a S:N of 39:0 wouldn't be all that weak, no?=20 > : > Looking at a post by Sam this past August, he calls 30:0 "very strong= ", > : > though that was for an 802.11b link. I'd think that the higher the > : > number, the stronger the signal. Is the above too weak to handle a > : > full 54Mbps link? > : generally it is not the signalstrength which let you connect at higher spee= ds,=20 it is the noise level. So you can have a low signal without noise and you m= ay=20 connect at high speed and on the other hand you may have a strong signal an= d=20 high noise and the speed is 1Mb or do not connect/associate at all > ----- > ath0: flags=3D28943 > mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe20:71ed%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 192.168.132.146 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.132.255 > ether 00:0f:b5:20:71:ed > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > status: associated tha card default in autoselect is probably 11b so it do not connect at 11g= =20 until you configure it to ifconfig mode 11g media OFDM/54mbps should do the job,, tha card still connect at lower speed depending on what= it=20 can with the selected AP in order to not jumping around you can try setting bssid _MAC_desired_AP_ so long as your card is in monitor mode you may not connect nor get traffic= at=20 all Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br