Aug. 27, 2008
OK so I've been able to get things running quite smoothly now. I cracked my Linksys WUSB54GC card open and soldered a pigtail connector to it according to the following photo http://www.josepino.com/other_projects/antenna/usb-antenna.jpg. I also added txPowerTuning=36 as option to the rt73 driver which I believe did make things somewhat better.
What remains in order to get a good solid environment running is a better wifi card with a lot better transmit power, which I've ordered from the UK today. Hopefully it will be here by monday so me and my friend can do some more tests over a beer or two.
2 Responses to “more wi-fi AP testing”
Just curious, what card did you order? This one seems to be interesting: http://www.data-alliance.net/servlet/the-141/RealTek-USB-400mW-WiFi/Detail
By jmc on Aug 30, 2008
I ordered the 500mW Alpha AWUS036H USB card. So far it looks VERY promising. Even with the bundled 2dBi antenna, the range is very good. I have tested some different drivers and some perform better than others. Currently I am running the drivers from the git kernel sources. I’ll post more once I have done some more testing.
By Patrik on Aug 31, 2008