On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Raja Subramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can you configure the transmit power in the unit? IIRC, the max. >> transmit power for WiFi is about 200mW (this is the number I got for a >> WiFi card I bought). > > Increasing transmit power has following disadvantages:
...... snip ..... > It's best to run the device with it's defaults. I did not mean to advocate maxing output power - overheating would be the definitive killer of the device. With adequate heat dissipation, I believe the output power can be cranked up to 50-80 mW range. I have an ALIX unit which I plan to experiment with, I will report my results when I put it in production in my office. > 1. cantenna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna > 2. EZ12 http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html My Linksys WRT54GH is no bigger than a paper weight and it does not sport any external antenna. My next WiFi AP purchase will be some other brand for sure - something (Buffalo or the ASUS unit discussed here) more friendly towards the open source WiFi distros. The point I was trying to make is that the output in consumer models is low (probably by design) so that the consumer ends up buying more units to get full coverage in our premises. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
