[Voyage-linux] How to realize a Point to Point Connection

Tommaso (spam-protected)
Mon Feb 6 01:39:00 HKT 2006


Hi to all,

 

            I'm actually using the 0.2pre1 version over a Wrap board with
one CM9 card. I have no problem having the ath0 interface working in Master
Mode, I get a very good Access Point. Now I'm interested in testing the
possibility to perform long (>5 Km) point to point links. I'm not a
802.11a-guru, so maybe I'm wrong, but I have put the ath interface of both
clients in Ad-Hoc mode with the same SSID. I get the two clients connecting
each other but with a very very low speed < 1Mps, the iwconfig reports 0
Kbps even if the received signal is bigger than -18 dBm (when the two
clients are few meters away). I have changed the radio cards and the
antenna, but it definitely seem a software problem.

It's a problem of the madwifi driver included in the 0.2pre1? 

Tomorrow I will update to the 0.2pre3 version, but I would to know if the
Ad-Hoc mode is the best one for a point to point link; in fact, reading the
madwifi-ng documentation I am a bit confused since you can use both the
Ad-Hoc (iwconfig) mode and the WDS functionality putting one client in STA
mode and the other one in AP mode.

Thanks.

 

Tommaso

 

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