[manchesterwireless] Effective Radiated Power?

[gARetH baBB]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Dave Page wrote:

> line and use VPN over it. If anybody fancies casting an eye on 
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/diffrentcolours/584492.html and 
> offering any advice, I'd be very grateful.

I think you've immersed yourself in so much minute detail you've come to a 
position where you can't see the wood for the trees.

Just get a test setup going and see how it performs, and adjust as 
neccessary.

I will point out one thing, by default HostAP does not use a max TXPOWER, 
it lets the card firmware do ALC - badly IMO.

Unfortunately you can't just disable ALC and ramp the TXPOWER up to full, 
well you can and it lets you see what is possible, but in my experience at 
some point the TXPOWER will suddenly plummet to 0 until you reset - there 
is some conflict going on somewhere.

Also if HostAP has to reset the card for some reason then the ALC and 
TXPOWER settings are set back to default. There is at least one patch to 
cater for this, but I think it's out of date now, and still missed a few 
points.

Use a simple AP, this avoids all of this nastiness, and also means you can 
run Cat5 from whatever to the AP and more importantly the AP can be 
sitting right next to your antenna.