On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Clint Pachl wrote: > I have a similar problem in 3.9 with ral cards; very poor range. > > Linksys (ath) [ap] -> Level One (ral) = 5-7 meters > Linksys (ath) [ap] -> Old 1MBit Intel (wi?) = +30 meters > Level One (ral pci) [ap] -> Level One (ral pccard) = must be within 1-2 > meters > > I tried changing the Tx Power, but that didn't have an effect. Because I've > heard that the ral driver is very good, I was just assuming that my Level One > cards have crappy transceivers and/or antennas.
<30 metres is beyond crappy. I have never seen a ral(4) do that badly. Do you have interference on the channel? You might want to try another one... -d