[olug] WRT (was: Tonight's meeting)

[Sam Tetherow]

What is the connection rate on your wireless connection?  You are going 
to get actual throughput at a little under half the air rate (so 11Mbps 
802.11B really only gets you a maximum of about 4.5M data rate).

Assuming you are managing a 56Mbps 802.11g connection, then next thing 
to try is changing channels.  Inside a home this usually isn't a proble, 
but depending on where the router and/or laptop are located it can make 
a difference (especially if near a window or in an apt complex).  
Channel choice is entirely environment dependent but 1 or 11 may be 
better than the stock channel 6.  If 1 and 11 don't help, you can walk 
through each channel and test.

I would be surprised that the router couldn't handle it's maximum over 
the air data rate using a standard setup.

    Sam Tetherow
    Sandhills Wireless


Travis Owens wrote:
> This struck a chord with me, since my new Linksys WRT54G (V8) is
> having significant wireless speed issues. I understand there is
> potential loss of speed compared to wired connections, but we're
> sitting within 20 feet of the router, and our wired speeds are +10M/s
> easily... wireless is 3M/s at best...
>
> The preliminary research I've done so far, points to an upgrade to
> dd/open-wrt as helping, but saying it's never going to be the same...
>
> I'm not asking for the same, but good grief... paying for a 12M/s pipe
> and only getting 1/4 of it... I think not...
>
> Anyway, I figured to toss this out there and see if anyone has had
> similar experiences, or any suggestions to fix it.
>
> Thanks!
> Travis
>
>
> On 9/4/07, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> i am working on a presentation for alternative firmware for SOHO firewalls
>> with a focus on dd-wrt.
>>
>> Afterall,  today is dd-wrt's creator BrainSlayer's BirthDay!
>>
>> i will be bringing Buffalo and Linksys wireless routers installed with
>> DD-WRT and some unflashed fon.com routers.   If time, i will flash one back
>> to Linksys firmware and then run through the staging to install dd-wrt.  If
>> anyone has a wireless router they want to run a very small risk of flashing
>> with dd-wrt, then please bring it.  If your router is "bricked", then you
>> may have an expensive paperweight, but that has not happened to me.  A list
>> of supported hardware can be found here:
>>
>> http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
>>
>> If you have LinkSys wrt-54g with a serial # that starts with CDFA, then you
>> have a good router for this project.  Since the newer routers have less RAM,
>> dd-wrt has a micro-edition for these.  BrainSlayer recommends Buffalo
>> branded routers - the last i heard anyway.
>>
>> An example of why alternative firmwares can be so much better and even more
>> secure than the factory firmware.
>>
>> There probably will not be enough time to flash the fon.com routers (that
>> can take 10 minutes just for the reflash), but i will bringing 1 or 2 in
>> case there is interest.
>>
>>
>> On 9/4/07, Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> InstallFest Followup
>>> OLUG Discussion
>>> Q&A
>>> Unconfirmed: WRT firmware discussion
>>>
>>> Jon L.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Travis Owens wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:44:36 -0500
>>>> From: Travis Owens <openbook1441 at gmail.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>>>> To: Omaha LUG <olug at olug.org>
>>>> Subject: [olug] Tonight's meeting
>>>>
>>>> What's going on for tonight's LUG meeting? I don't remember seeing
>>>>         
>>> anything yet.
>>>       
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>         
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