[plug] [OT] Wireless net help

[Garry]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> I have the oddest problem.
> 
> I have a wireless link from the office to home.
> I'm using a pair of WAP11V2.6 to bridge the network, and at the home end 
> I have a crossover cable from the WAP11 to a DWL-900AP+ to serve all my 
> PC's around the unit.
> 
> This works great with one caveat.
> I can get 3-500kb/s from home to the office, but I can only get 
> 50-80kb/s from the office to home when accessed wirelessly.
> If I unplug the DWL-900 and plug the WAP11 directly into my laptop I can 
> get 3-500k/s bi-directional with no problems.
> The only thing I have not yet tried (tonights project) is to put a small 
> hub or switch between the WAP11 and DWL-900 to see if that makes a 
> difference.
> 
> The WAP11 link is using a pair of Hunts Pasta sauce cans, and is over 
> about 500m but passes through 6 layers (3 double glazed windows) of 
> glass with metalised tinting and a 10 foot wide concrete corridor (It's 
> a pretty torturous path really). I have a pair of DWL-900AP+ but they 
> did not have the legs to make the link (even with the max power patched 
> firmware) whereas the WAP11's get 11MB/s out of the box so I'm using one 
> of the DWL's inside and the other one is waiting for me to come up with 
> a use for it.
> 
> Clients are a Prism2.5 PCI card in one pc and Orinoco PCMCIA cards in my 
> laptop and iPAQ.
> I can get 250kb's from PC<->LAPTOP which is about right, but I can't 
> pull anything like that over the link..
> 
> Anyway, I'm after some suggestions or the usual forest for the trees 
> stuff..


Have a talk to Rob Clark ( http://www.freenet-antennas.com/ )
about an externel (higher gain) panel/omni/waveguide antenna for your 900+..

I'm assuming you are not using clashing channels on the Wep/900+ links, 
and the rates are still no good when close to the 900+.

HTH

Garry




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