Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:05:49 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@linuxcare.com.au> Subject: Re: ray committed Message-ID: <14894.32765.318493.216910@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001206091018.dmlb@computer.my.domain> References: <200012060604.XAA76044@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.001206091018.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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> > I also have a wireless link with the older pre802.11 wavelan cards at > > 2.4GHz to a friends house. Maybe that is impacting things. > > This could be a problem. Do you know if these are frequency hopping or > direct sequence? If frequency hopping they are likely to be interfering. All Wavelan cards are SS/DS cards. And, the SS/DS cards seem to be almost impervious to most 'generic' noise in our experiments. > How long is the link? 802.11 was designed for a couple of 100m - this is not > just Tx power/Rx sensitivity but stuff like > resiliance to fading channels > resiliance to mutli-path > timing parameters (remember 150m/microsecond) > ... True, but I know alot of folks who are going *MILES* with the cards, w/no significant negative side-effects. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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