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

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Bob Holmes <bob at 88foo.com> wrote:
> Aloha Ildefonso,
>
> Having implemented quite a few 10 to 20 mile links with both madwifi and
> Ubiquiti, I very much second Kevins opinion.  Ubiquiti value and performance
> cannot be beat.
> bob

yeah: where is madwifi on latest voyage? that's the point of this
thread.  I have installed long distance links with madwifi too, the
point of this thread is about using ath5k for that.

>
>
> On 3/21/2012 7:36 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>
>> 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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