Re: [Madwifi-users] SR5 Throughput issues

[Jacob S. <js...@in...>]

Tom Sharples wrote:
> A couple of suggestions:
>  
> The SR5 cards need to be of a fairly recent vintage (iirc 6 months or 
> newer) because the earlier ones had significant problems with madwifi 
> compatibility. Contact Ubiquiti www.ubnt.com <http://www.ubnt.com>  to 
> see if the ones you have are new enough. 
>  
> Also I would test your setup with the cards in both ad-hoc and master 
> / managed mode without WDS and see if you get a better result. 
>  

I agree with both comments, I also wanted to add that the SR5 has 
extremely high power draw which can cause lots of problems including 
lousy throughput due to low signal quality in a system that can't handle 
it.  Reducing txpower can help in these situations (remember modern 
SR5's set +10 db automatically above your setting)...  Many PCI->MiniPCI 
adapters and SBCs can't deliver the 1.5A (4.7W) per slot required for 
the cards to operate properly.

Same goes for the SR2...

JS