Wap11 1.x & the power boost.

I recently got a Palm T|X, and thus decided it was time to add wifi at
home. I got a Wap11 v1.x from ebay and all was good. I then discovered
the power boost ability. I made the change but my TX does not show it as
being much better. This is just going by the level of the green scale in
the TX itself.

So, should I be doing download speed tests from various distances to see
if the power boost really worked, or is the TX really telling me that it
did not work?

If it did not work, what might I be doing wrong?

I used ap-utils-1.5 in Linux and changed the radio settings for all
channels to 128 (80h). It clearly took the values since ap-config still
shows them there after a reset of the Wap11.

Oh, and I did upgrade the firmware to the latest that linksys offered,
(1.4i.1). That jumped me from 64bit WEP to 128bit and added the IP filter.

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Doug Herr
doug*at*wombatz*dot*com

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:25:30 -0800, Doug Herr wrote:

> I recently got a Palm T|X, and thus decided it was time to add wifi at
> home. I got a Wap11 v1.x from ebay and all was good. I then discovered
> the power boost ability. I made the change but my TX does not show it
> as being much better. This is just going by the level of the green
> scale in the TX itself.
>
> So, should I be doing download speed tests from various distances to see
> if the power boost really worked, or is the TX really telling me that it
> did not work?


I guess the answer to that was "yes". I found the dslreports wireless
speed test. Sure enough, I can show that there is maybe a 20 to 30 foot
greater circle around the house where I can get a reasonable output from
the speed test when using the higher radio numbers. I was hoping for a
greater boost, but I guess when you look at the overall area of the
coverage it *is* much larger. It was hard to not look at it as a simple
linear value moving away from the AP.


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Doug Herr
doug*at*wombatz*dot*com