Re:šProximšWiFišcardsšanyone?

lesha_at_intercaf.ru
Date: 08/01/04

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To: "M.šWarneršLoshš" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    > : Today I have bought myself new Proxim Orinoco Gold b/g card
    > : to replace my old Lucent Orinoco b one.
    > :
    > : New card is working fine with the ath driver, but...
    > : Signal strength and radio perfomance are very nasty.
    > :
    > : Where my old card gave me signal strength of 106
    > : new one gives only 51. (that is 5m away from AP)
    > : (same AP, same channels, same everything)
    > :
    > : It is not working even in next room to the AP.
    > :
    > : What can be the problem, or just Proxim got lame engineers?
    >
    > Lame antenna. Also, the signal strength, as reported by FreeBSD, can
    > be radically different when the RF levels are exactly the same.
    > Different firmware has different formulas to convert the values that
    > are reported. Also, different antennas have different gains.

    No. It seems like antenna is not the problem.
    I have tried connecting external one today, same poor perfomance.
    But...

    When I do run Windowz there are 2 different ways this card behaves.
    a) Managed by Windowz WiFi stack:
     - same poor perfomance, disconnections, etc
    b) Managed by supplied Proxim's client utility:
     - good link strength, works as it should

    Seems like client utility is doing some tweaks on the card
      (switching it's power level may be?)

    Actually I have bought myself Buffalo G54 card today.
    It is 3 times (!) cheaper then Proxim Orinoco and works perfectly
    with NDISualtor (it is Broadcom based):
      device = 'BCM4306(??) 802.11g Wireless NIC'

    Just thought I should warn everyone - do NOT buy crappy Proxim.

    Cheers,
          AL.

    p.s. Buffalo costs 54 singapore dollards here
     (it is about $32 usd) I should say it is very
     cheap for B/G card!

    p.p.s. I was looking for a G card with external connector,
           seems like now I have found one. Tomorrow will go
           buy a pack of them for my friends, to bring with me
           when I will go back to Russia.

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