[Voyage-linux] Re: Long distance link and ath5k

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

Hi!

I did it with 0.6 some time ago, and used madwifi, but throughput was
not the best, I was getting ~1Mbps or so on a 14km link, after a
while, one of my cards died, and I kept the link down for a while, and
now I tried to configure again with voyage 0.7 and add WPA (I was
using openvpn to secure my connection before), but while configuring
hostapd 0.7.3, it had no madwifi support (it was removed on Debian,
so...), then I tried ath5k, and hostapd worked perfectly, but now, I
can't see a way of changing the timeouts and other parameters to allow
a 14km link.

Finally, I went to my old way: madwifi + openvpn ..... I wanted to use
ath5k instead of madwifi (just had the feeling it could give a better
throughput), and specially: I wanted to add WPA2 to the mix.

On your 25km, how much throughput do you get on your link? (I have
thought on moving to 5.8 from 2.4 I'm currently using).

Ildefonso.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Beat Meier
<mbe_ml at swiss-wireless.com.ar> wrote:
> jose
>
> Have long distance links with madwifi, hostapd/wpa_supplicant and
> voyage-0.5.2
> Works very nice.
> Longest p2p link I have is 25km in 5.8Ghz ...
>
> Greetings
>
> Beat
>
>
> On 03/30/2011 09:43 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>> Ok, so, I guess no one actually do long-distance (>5km) links with
>> voyage..... sigh.
>>
>> I guess I'll use madwifi, and downgrade hostapd.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Ildefonso.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
>> <ildefonso.camargo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm trying to make a long distance link work with ath5k driver
>>> (because voyage-included 0.7.3 hostapd doesn't support madwifi), so I
>>> decided to give a try to ath5k, but, just got the surprise that,
>>> afaik, I can't change ack timeout and other parameters on ath5k :( ,
>>> and I'm getting this on the AP log:
>>>
>>> Jan  1 00:10:50 ap1 hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:02:6f:39:cb:8e IEEE 802.11:
>>> did not acknowledge authentication response
>>>
>>> Now, searching through the web:
>>>
>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath5k.devel/4742
>>>
>>> It looks like, at some point, the "set distance" thing was added, but,
>>> that doesn't seem to work on voyage.
>>>
>>> I have been searching through the web for quite some time now, but no luck.
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Ildefonso Camargo
>>>
>>>
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