[Fwd: re: ath0 lost connection]
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Mon Dec 1 20:16:00 PST 2003
Eric Anderson wrote:
[..snip..]
>> ath_rate_ctl: 2M -> 1M (0 ok, 1 err, 1 retr)
>
>
> If you are down to 1M, I think you may need to check signal strength
> and such. I'd start with my testing near the AP (in sight of it at
> least).
Ok - I don't usually talk to myself (not in public anyway) - but here
are my findings. When in 11b mode, everything works fine (I didn't try
going to the edge of my coverage area though - too comfortable on my
couch). When in 11g mode, I see the rate flap up and down between 48M
and 24M, and each time it switches, it loses some packets in between
modes. I just now manually set my client (FreeBSD of course) to 36M,
and it seems to be holding up for now. Here's all I did:
ifconfig ath0 media OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
Give that a try on the FreeBSD AP, and see if that helps at all (you may
want to try the 11b modes, like:
ifconfig ath0 media DS/2Mbps mode 11b
or something..
Eric
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