[lug] OT: Avaya Card Performance -- Was: cheap 802.11b for linux...

[Nate Duehr]

Archer Sully wrote:

>Link quality, which is appears to be an averaged S/N.  I'm showing 38db
>right now (signal -42db, noise -86db).    Oddly, if put the laptop on the
>floor, the signal gets significantly better.  At Caffe Sole, though, I've 
>sat next to another user, and while his S/N was regularly 85+db, mine was
>still mired at <40db.    Same AP in both cases.
>
Ouch.  That does sound like the antenna's hosed.  

Interesting that an external antenna still works through the connector, 
though.

>
>
>Now admittedly, this card has seen better days.  It got severly bent some
>how (badly enough to no longer fit into the slot ;-), and may have had its
>antenna damaged.  It did take a bit of work to get it bent back into shape.
>
More ouch!

>
>>If you have the Windows client, go into the advanced stuff and look at
>>the Signal to Noise ratio.  
>>
>
>Wavemon does all this (and more), and with a proper curses interface in a 
>text window instead of a useless GUI ;-).
>
Ahhh... now THIS is the kind of stuff we're all here to learn!  :-)  I'm 
going to go find that and download it tonight!  :-)

Thanks, eh.

Nate