[LUNI] Linksys Wireless range issue

[David Gibbs]

At 01:35 AM 3/2/2002, you wrote:
>However when I tried to hook the WPC into a PC two floors down, in the
>basement, I was astounded to see that I had _no_ signal.  Plugging the
>WAP into various outlets around the house showed that I could get
>between 60% and 30% signal one floor above the basement and around 30%
>signal from the 2nd floor down to the ground.

The WPC11 card is notorious for having poor range.  I had the WAP11/WPC11 
combo and couldn't go more than 30 feet away (LOS) without loosing 
significant signal.

My recommendation would be to get rid of the WPC11 and get a 
Orinoco/Lucent/Agere gold card (or a card based on the same chipset).  This 
card has wonderful range.

david

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