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Gismo
22-12-2005, 13:01
I've setup a NetGear AP, and am using a NetGear wireless PCI card. PC and AP are about 300m apart, NetGear utility reports signal strength between 84 and 90%, and the PC can connect to the network, and get's an IP from DHCP server on remote network. Utility reports that the connection is a full 54mbps, however I cannot copy anything faster than 50kb/s, if I'm lucky! &|

Anyone got any advice?

Oh, and LOS is good!
Eben
22-12-2005, 17:05
have u tried changing the channels / u must be having serious interferance (cellphone, cordless phone, microwave ect.)
Gismo
22-12-2005, 19:24
Shot Eben, that helped a bit. :)
Scanned thru all the channels. Found that Channel 02 gives me best performance. I can now sustance data transfers at around 70KB/s !amazed

I kinda expect more tho!

I'm now beginning to suspect problems with driver / software, 'cos immediately after connecting to the network, I can get about 700kb/s, which just about instantly drops to ~70 :(
Eben
23-12-2005, 13:18
that's still bad, could be the drivers, let me know if there's improvement after installing new drivers
Eben
23-12-2005, 13:25
PS what model netgear ur using
Gismo
27-12-2005, 15:04
I'm currently using a DG834GT for the AP, and the client card is a WG311T. I'll try the driver update tonight.
Gismo
29-12-2005, 10:41
OK, I updated to the latest drivers I could find.
Seems better, I can now get sustained transfers at around 500KB/s (Note: that's KiloBytes per second)

There must still be some heavy interferance from something.

Next things we gonna try are:
1: Gonna try raise the antenna's (increase height)
2: Test with the antenna vertically and horizontally polarised
Eben
31-12-2005, 10:06
500KB/s is much better than the 50KB/s u previously got so at least ur going in the right direction
savagedavid
31-12-2005, 17:11
Also remember that 500KB/s is equivalent to a good quality 11mb link, so I guess it depends on what the purpose of the link is.
Eben
01-01-2006, 12:52
yes and that G was actually made for indoor use due to overlapping
Eben
01-01-2006, 12:52
PS: Happy New Year
Gismo
03-02-2006, 12:34
OK, we got it working much better now.
Copied 92MB in 2 min. !amazed
And have had sustained transfers at around 6Mbps

We raised one of the antenna's by a meter!

Thanks for the input guys!
Eben
03-02-2006, 21:59
still not good i getting 23mbps up and 22mbps down over 6-8kms so 6mbps over 300m is terrible
andrefourie
06-02-2006, 09:21
Now, Now Eben nobody likes a show-off how about helping the guy instead? 8)
Eben
06-02-2006, 12:32
i just love it
Eben
06-02-2006, 12:33
what antennas do u use, make sure they use the same polarity
Gismo
06-02-2006, 16:17
I got 2x Poynting 12dBi Yagi antenna's. (one at each site)

BTW, as of yesterday, stable connection, copying Data at 1000KB/s (kilobytes), raised antenna some more :)

Over a ping of 100 packets, at 65500 bytes per packet:
5 lost and avg time of 120ms.

Comments?
Eben
06-02-2006, 22:40
much better than the 50kbps u had, but it can still be improved - ur connection speed: does it stay on 54mbps or jumping between speeds