Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:32:06 +0100 | From | Thomas Mueller <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 much worse than 2.4 on poor wlan reception |
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Hi Jes,
Jes Sorensen meinte am Friday, dem 05. March 2004:
> Thomas> Kernel 2.4 works far better in the poor reception situation I > Thomas> have, anyone any idea what I could do without moving the AP or > Thomas> laptop? When I'm near my AP everything works fine with 2.6 > Thomas> too. > > Start out by forcing it to a lower link speed, at that signal quality > you really don't want to try and go above 2MBit/sec. If you keep > trying to do 11MBit/sec the card will constantly try the higher rate > and then lose signal, drop down and try again. Fixing the rate should > improve the situation - at least it has always done so for me ;-)
I tried that (rate 2M auto) but that doesn't improve anything. I still loose the connection to the AP, I don't think that happens less frequent than at 11 MBit/s.
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