[Voyage-linux] Using ath5k for long distance links.

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Kevin Wang <kjw at rightsock.com> wrote:
> I recommend looking at purchasing Ubiquiti network gear. They have outdoor rated hardware including the radio tweaks to the 802.11 protocols to allow greater distance. Range is not just about power. Also Ubiquiti hardware is surprisingly cheap. - kjw

Yeah, but most of these are actually atheros-based cards anyway, so:
the driver issue persist.

Now, after some discussion on IRC channel (Linux Wireless), I found
that iw could be used to set distance, something like that:

iw phy phy0 set distance 10000

Now, I am not sure if that distance is in meters, according to this link:

http://www.mail-archive.com/ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org/msg02881.html

It looks like it is given in meters.

I'll give this a try in a few days.

Ildefonso.

>
> Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <ildefonso.camargo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I want to setup a long distance link with ath5k driver, have anyone
>>here done that?  I have to ask, because I think madwifi is no longer
>>available on Voyage 0.8, on the other hand, with the kernel upgrade to
>>3.x, the throughput of ath5k greatly increased on my short-distance AP
>>(20~30Mbps, from 2~11Mbps I was getting before the update).
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Ildefonso Camargo
>>
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