[klug] Wireless Linux

[Steve Withers]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:07, Mark Robinson wrote:

> Glad to hear you are settled in your proper home, although it seems you have some 
> priorities inverted. Surely it is more important that the server farm is properly 
> accommodated than other more mundane and less productive pursuits such as cooking 
> and watching TV which are so naturally suited to the spartan environs of the garage.

I tried to run that one but it received little in the way of agreement.
So the kitchen is in the house...and the server farm is in the garage.
:-)  

> A few notes about antennae and radio, hopefully I am not preaching to the choir.

Not at all! 

The information you provided is gratefully received. Particularly the
information about 2.4GHz and the orientation of the antennae. 

Fortunately, the 7Db di-pole antenna is jointed, so I was able to orient
it vertically.....which, if I understand you right, sees me on the same
horizontal plane as the directional 10Db antenna....which has a 56
degree H/V 'coverage'. That one is located at the far end of the house
and points down the length of the house....and toward the garage beyond
(via the windows). 

> .... We 
> don't like 10% packet loss. Pick access points with two antennae.

Good advice. 

> Great work on making yet more DSE stuff work in Linux, I hope you are getting 
> some kickbacks from them.

Their stuff is cheap and cheerful and they choose it with a view to
seeing it work with Linux. Their product 'chooser', Chris Day, works
with the NZOSS and the NZLUG to see that Linux is supported as well as
possible - either directly, as in some cases, or via OSS projects for
writing the required device drivers to support the relevant chipsets. 

I know most folks will go for the cheaper, 'good-enough' option of they
know it will work. On that basis, I try, buy and share info about DSE
stuff. IMHO, DSE deserves some recognition for the effort they make to
help us Linux users buy cool stuff for cheap..... :-)

Thanks, Mark! 

Steve   

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