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Reviving old post: Check signal using DWL-810+

Please tell me if my thinking is correct. Here's the setup for now. Home office RoadRunner with a D-Link DI-604 router and a few more switches, and a DWL-800AP+ (AP mode) mounted in a window 6 feet from the floor. Detached Garage (120 feet away) has a DWL-810+ bridge (actually an 800 with hacked firmware) sitting on top of monitor, with stock antenna and boxes and metal stuff near. It's connected to a 4 port hub (in case I want another ethernet connection out there), obviously 1 port connected to ethernet card in computer. I did many Roadrunner speed tests, the ones with the goofy picture and the ones with the rocket picture and text, and I consistently get 4.3 to

4.6 mbps, the same speed I get to a hardwired computer in the office. Logs show almost no dropped packets. I think this is excellent throughput under the cicumstances. Did I just get lucky with placement or are these D-Link devices really good? A side note, I did an ad-hoc network at a business this week, using G hardware, only achieving 11mbps on the signal meter, but the connection is pitiful at 30 feet. It drops down to 1mbps if someone walks by. Thanks, Rob
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MrSmiley
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FYI, In an AD-HOC network the best you can expect is 11MBs no matter what protocol you use.

Robert...

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DLink Guru

Yeah, I read that on D-Link's site. I wonder if future firmware will allow faster speeds with existing hardware. Rob

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MrSmiley

Not likely. AD-HOC wil more then likely only support 11MBs in the future. The companies dont spend anytime in R&D on AD-HOC solutions as it is so limited, plus they want you to purchase thier other products instead of only

2 adapters.
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DLink Guru

I can say that I am also very happy with my two DWL-810AP+'s. No packet losses and also see the same throughput coming off RR. (Did the speed tests using a laptop.) I mainly just use them for consoles (PS2, Dreamcast) but also have let friends/family plug into them with their laptops if they didn't have any wireless hardware.

Your reference about the "hacked firmware" for the DWL-800AP+ is interesting. I was thinking about picking up one or two more DWL-810AP+'s eventually, since they worked so well. With "hacked firmware" capable of using the DWL-800AP+ as a wireless/ethernet bridge, might just pick a couple of them up instead. Going to google that later. Be nice to not only have a couple more little bridges, but "wireless extenders" as well.

Cheers,

-Eric

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Eric

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