[KLUG Members] Minimum req. signal strength.

[Bill Katsma]

What kind of access point are you using?  I have a Linksys and have it
downstairs and I am lucky to get a good signal just above let alone on the
othe side of the house.


Later
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 2:33 PM
Subject: [KLUG Members] Minimum req. signal strength.


> I started the signal strength meter on my GNOME panel and was checking
> the singal strength around my house...
>
> So I'm curious what people find to be the minimal signal strength to
> have a reliable connection,  and at what signal strength throughput
> starts to noticably drop off.
>
> Six inches from the WAP is about 96%
>
> The upper floor is 67-86%
>
> The lower floor is 68-76%
>
> The very back corner of my yard in the tool shed is ~50%, the sidewalk
> is ~75%, the sidewalk on the other side of the street is ~65%.
>
> I've studied for the HAM radio test (never got around to actually taking
> it) so I'm not really surprised that signal strength doesn't seem to
> have a direct and strong correlation to distance,  but it is going
> further than I expected (I'm going to walk the whole block when I get a
> chance).
>
> I haven't tried moving it around yet to see how location effect it.
> Will taking the time to mount it way up in the attic actually throw the
> signal that much further? (About 15ft higher that it is now).
>
> I intend to run this open to the Internet with a VPN server between the
> WAP/firewall segment and my own home LAN. (floppyfw has a nice little
> DHCP server).
>
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