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

[Andrew Niemantsverdriet]

I forgot to mention that also. The more accurate the distance the better
the through-put. But if you were bench testing that and were only getting
1M there may be some other issues.

> 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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