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

[Punky Tse]

Tommaso,

It is a tricky for tuning madwifi for long distance link. See:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/LongDistance

Punky

Tommaso wrote:
>
> 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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