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amason09
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Router based on an ALIX board - limited range |
- 2010/05/30 04:18 |
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Hi all,
Recently I purchased an ALIX 3D2 board, a Wistron DCMA-81, two 5dBi antennae with pigtails, a 512mb CF card and a case to put it all in. It replaced a Netgear WG602 router which didn't support WPA. I installed voyage linux 0.5.2 on it and set up hostapd to act as an AP. Since then I've been unable to get wireless in the bedroom unless I put the laptop at the top of the bed.
The router is located next the internet router in the kitchen at the other end of the house. I was able to get wireless with the other router which had a Netgear XG-600V2 miniPCI card which I'd put a 5dBi antenna onto (same as the two I put on this router).
I swapped out one of the 5dBi antennae with a 7dBi D-Link antenna, but it still can't get the range we need.
A last resort would be to move it to the computer room (between the bedroom and kitchen) but is there anything I can do in settings to give the range a boost? It's already at maximum transmission power but I know that has nothing to do with range.
I've pasted my outputs of iwconfig and iwpriv values to http://pastebin.com/5DLm6mfg
Regards
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