Any tricks to help me connect at 54MB?

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/6/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    To improve our network reliability we upgraded our router to a
> > newer LinkSys double antenna device and added a wireless access point
> > in the living room instead of using the an internal PCI D-Link card
> > that had caused us so much trouble at that remote location. I'm now
> > getting much better throughput between the router and the equipment in
> > the living room which is great. We set that network up as 802.11g to
> > get the performance. The router and the access point are set to
> > 802.11g only.
> >
> >    However, my son's FC2 machine is still using a 802.11g internal
> > card and is running with ndiswrapper. (DWL-510G) I cannot get this
> > card to connect to the new network. I've changed the ESSID on the new
> > network so I changed it on the card. The card sees the network using
> > the command 'iwlist wlan0 scanning' and reports back the correct new
> > ESSID. The ifcfg-wlan0 file has new IP addresses in it, along with the
> > new ESSID. It also has an entry called Bitrate which is set for
> > 54Mb/S.
> 
> I don't know how reliable the bitrate settings are--especially for an
> ndiswrapper driver.  I'd leave that off or set it to "auto".

Set to 'auto' I never get more than 11Mb/S. If I set the network up
for 802.11g only then the device won't connect.

> 
> >    I'd send the config file but the machine's not on the network so
> > it's a bit of work.
> >
> >    Nothing I've tried so far allows this device to connect. I haven't
> > tried lowering the network to 802.11b speeds and testing as I need the
> > g level throughput.
> >
> >    Any ideas about how to get this beast going?
> 
> Can you run the startup script and then do an "iwconfig wlan0" and
> verify that all of the settings got there?

The 54Mb/S setting doen't make it. Even when I choose that the setting
still shows up as 11Mb/S.

I've set the router to now allow bot 11b and 11g. It gets the device
connected but slows down transfers between other machines. I'm
disappointed. Bummer.

Anyway, thanks for the ideas.

Cheers,
Mark