Soo many factors.. Range to AP Line of sight to AP Arial being used (omni-directional, or uni-directional) Heavy metalic items nearby (fridges, washing machines, hot water cylinders) Other devices using the 2.4Ghz range (phones, wireless keyboards/mice) Other wireless networks nearby Wall structures in line of sight (concrete bricks with reinforced steel, gib, alloyed framing) Transmit power at both ends etc.. Gerwin On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 08:08 +1200, Drew Broadley wrote:
Why is it so slow? How can I make it faster?
Is it dropping any packets, how is the latency ?
Copy+paste a `mtr --report` and a `ping` output.
In all seriousness, do you have anything metalic in the way/near the bridges antenna ? I've had packetloss galore because of that before.
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