Re: 2.6 much worse than 2.4 on poor wlan reception

[Thomas Mueller]

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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