Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

Thus spake Daniel O'Connor (doconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx) [08/03/06 19:45]:
: In any case I imagine there is no point forcing it to use 54Mbit - it will
: negotiate the highest speed it can manage based on signal strength and
: hardware support (for the AP and the card) automatically.

Huh.

: I suspect forcing 54Mbit will either not work at all (because the signal isn't
: strong enough or your hardware doesn't support it), or it will negotiate a
: speed up to 54Mbit (which would result in no functional change).

Okay, this has me a bit curious, so I dug into it a bit more:

SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
linksys 00:06:25:7b:25:3d 6 11M 35:0 100 E
MYSSID 00:12:17:85:9a:3b 11 54M 39:0 100 E
wahoo62 00:13:46:47:0f:0e 11 54M 4:0 100 EPS

I'd have thought that a S:N of 39:0 wouldn't be all that weak, no? Looking
at a post by Sam this past August, he calls 30:0 "very strong", though that
was for an 802.11b link. I'd think that the higher the number, the stronger
the signal. Is the above too weak to handle a full 54Mbps link?
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