Jeff Quast wrote:
On 12/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 13:27, Anis Kadri wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 12/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> 1 prism and 1 ral -> bad performance
> > >> 2 ral -> no connection
> > >>
> > >> has anyone an idea whats the problem of this low operation
> > >> range ?
> > > I have a Linksys card that uses ral and I can confirm this
> > 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.
> Same problem with minipci ral cards
> max distance: 5-8m.
it seems nobody uses minipci ralink cards ... :-(
Sure we do. Pretty cheap too...
I stopped using it and eventually gave it away after i saw the
performance of wi(4)... never been happier.
My girlfriend has an internal 1Mbit wi(4) in her laptop. I "upgraded" it
with a 54Mbit ral(4) card. She complained about how slow it was and if
she turned a certain way it would lose connectivity. So I pulled it and
she is back to your old 1Mbit card and she is happy. This is on a windoz
machine, but I have the same issues on my OBSD laptops too.
Unfortunately, I heard all the rave about the ral(4) driver so I went
and bought a couple of ral cards (Zonet, LevelOne). I have nothing to
compare my crappy ral cards with so I just might get an ath(4) card to
see what happens.
I do have two OBSD APs, one with an Linksys PCI ath(4) and the other
with a LevelOne PCI ral(4). When I connect my ral(4) PCCards to the ath
AP, my connection is somewhat better, but ral(node) <-> ral(AP) is
almost useless and very frustrating.
-pachl
