![]() iStumbler was not running at the time the measurements were made. Turning on or off "Use Interference Robustness" did not make a significant difference. The PowerBook G4, running fully-patched Mac OS X 10.4.1, is less than a meter from the Linksys, with a wood, lath, and plaster wall between. ~70,000 kbps was seen, which isn't bad considering the PowerBook was maxed out for CPU and that the ethernet segment is only 100baseT. $ scp 192.168.6.5:/Volumes/seagate-750-video/2 - > /dev/nullĪnd watching the network throughput at the interface on the PowerBook G4Īs a baseline, the first test was wired. Testing was done by using a network copy of a very large bzip-compressed file The issue is slow wireless performance, when compared to the Linksys firmware. Software was installed from … uashfs.bin which has a build date of Tue Aug 26 04:42:Įverything comes up nicely and I've been able to configure it similarly to the way I has been using it with Linksys firmware - basically a pass-through wireless extension of my wired network. If your new Mac uses the Intel wireless NIC you may have the same issue, and resolution with a driver update.I was pretty excited to be able to get the current build of kamikaze with the x-wrt extensions up and running on my WRT54G v4. The problem was resolved when Intel updated the driver/software package. ![]() I had the same wireless issue early on with my Centrino notebook using the onboard Intel wireless NIC. So having to have an overwhelming wireless signal to stay connected is of no surprise to me. Anyone in a Mac environment wanting to upgrade to a 1GB network should figure in a rewire of the office to the hardware estimate. Doesn’t seem to be that big an issue until you figure in two floors and several walls of physical structure that this single run of CAT-6 to go through for 1GB service for the Mac. ![]() All the PC’s on the same network worked just fine on the CAT-5E at 1GB. Now it worked just fine with CAT-5E and a 10/100 switch. My big nit-pick is that when you connect a G5 1GB NIC to a 10/ 100/1GB switch it will not negotiate a connection unless CAT-6 is used. My experience with Mac network adapters is that they can be real picky about their network environment. What you can do with a spare access point? Thomas has an idea. You can get from the Public WLAN to the Internet, but not to the other networks for instance. I now have four networks on my router: Internet, LAN, WLAN and Public WLAN. The main reason for that is that I was running out of ports on my switch, but it also gives me the benefit of being able to better control what you can do from there. I also put the access point on its own network. :-) Most importantly however, the MacBook has not dropped out today. I don't know what these numbers in iStumbler mean, but higher numbers are better. With its bigger antennas, reception on my MacBook went from 48 to 55. ![]() Swapping the gear brought an instantaneous power boost. ![]() I'd prefer small switching power supplies instead of transformers. The only thing I don't like are their big power supplies. by Volker WeberĪs a cure to my MacBook WLAN dropouts I replaced the Linksys access point (actually a router with AP) with a Netgear WG302. ![]()
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