ath0 weak connectivity

Sten Daniel Sørsdal lists at wm-access.no
Tue Sep 26 05:10:00 PDT 2006


Sam Leffler wrote:
> I've lost context about your problem but it appears you're having
> trouble associating with "trejago" sometimes.  The failed scan shows
> that your rssi was only 6 when you were having problems which is a very
> marginal signal so I'm not at all surprised you're having trouble.
> You've got strong signal ap's on overlapping channels (5 and 7) which
> are likely drowning the signal on your ap.  I don't see anything the
> driver could do differently; this seems more an issue of your
> environment being very busy.  I vaguely recall you were comparing the
> operation of the freebsd to windows.  If so then perhaps the windows
> driver was doing better because it switched to XR mode and operating in
> XR mode you were able to punch through the noise to get to the ap.
> freebsd does not support XR mode.
> 
> 	Sam
> 

Are there any plans to support this?
What about fastframes/bursting? 10Mhz, 5Mhz channels?
WDS? Virtual AP? Is there any place where i can read about this?
Apologies if any of these are already in the works.

-- 
Sten Daniel Sørsdal




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