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

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

Hi!

I missed this answer, sorry!

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Beat Meier
<mbe_ml at swiss-wireless.com.ar> wrote:
> Ups
>
> Sorry I did not seen this post in the past :-(
> Now I have the same problem with long distance link try to us ath5k with
> voyage-0.7.5
> and have bad throughout and "bad signal" on a 8km link and was searching my
> email lists ...

Interesting, are you fiddling with the "distance" module parameter? (I
hasn't checked if voyage 0.7.5 support that yet).

>
> With voyage 0.5 and madwifi I have 7.5-9Mbps (with a signal of -80) on my
> 25km link
> BUT you must disable ANI of the corresponding interface with
>
>  ### Disable ANI
>  sysctl -w dev.${DEVICE2}.intmit=0

Wow, never heard of that, but certainly I have had *serious* slowness
even on shorter links, I once had a ~500mts test, that *never* wanted
to go above ~6Mbps :( .  Anyway, I have an AP with ath5k, but it is
for short distances, my only issue is when it just "reboot", but I
believe that could be related to overheating (reducing card transmit
power from 23 to 15 dB almost eliminated the problem).

Ildefonso.