Hello All,

I recently installed Open BSD 3.7 off disks I ordered from OpenBSD. I
am
trying to setup up a firewall/wireless access point.

My wireless card is a Netgear WG311T.

I have installed everything successfully, got the card up and running
and
manage to get my laptop, which only has an 802.11b card to connect
successfully. I am also able to run the host in DHCP mode.

My only problem is when it comes to range. When I am about 10 feet in
the
same room from the card, it seems fine. But when I go about 20 feet
outside
of the room with my laptop, the signal degrades very badly. Surely the
range
should be better than that?

I tried a couple of things, including locking to the card down to
802.11b,
but that doesn't seem to help.

It may just be the card itself, but can you think of anything else I
can try
to improve my range?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks


Here's my configuration

------------
hostname.ath0
inet 10.0.1.1 255.255.255.0 10.0.1.255 media DS11 mediaopt hostap nwid
<My
Network Name> nwkey 0x<my hex wep key> chan 11 mode 11b
------------

---------------------------
#ifconfig
ath0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX ,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
address: 00:0f:b5:63:e0:4f
ieee80211: nwid <My Newwork Name> chan 11 bssid
00:0f:b5:63:e0:4f
nwkey 0x<my hex wep key>
media: IEEE802.11 DS11 mode 11b hostap (autoselect mode 11b
hostap)
status: active
inet 10.0.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255
inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe63:e04f%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
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akbillon@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I recently installed Open BSD 3.7 off disks I ordered from OpenBSD. I
> am
> trying to setup up a firewall/wireless access point.
>
> My wireless card is a Netgear WG311T.
>
> I have installed everything successfully, got the card up and running
> and
> manage to get my laptop, which only has an 802.11b card to connect
> successfully. I am also able to run the host in DHCP mode.
>
> My only problem is when it comes to range. When I am about 10 feet in
> the
> same room from the card, it seems fine. But when I go about 20 feet
> outside
> of the room with my laptop, the signal degrades very badly

Are you in a RF shielded room?

http://www.lessemf.com/faq-shie.html#celltower