[MLB-WIRELESS] Orinoco transmit power

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

Orinoco's are good reliable cards with good receive sensitivity.
With proper LOS you should be able to get full speed on that link.

Have you tried a file transfer to see what rate you get?

I get on average 500Kb/sec between two orinoco's 3.05km's apart with around
7M of cable at both ends.  One end is attached to a 24dB dish, the other an
18dB dish.


>The spec says that the transmit power should be 30mW or 15dB. Does anyone
>know how much of this actually gets out of the pigtail. I am doing a 2.5km
>link and the signal levels I am seeing are much lower than I would expect
>from calculations of the free space and cable losses.
>
>I suspect that when you plug in the pigtail the internal antenna is not
>disconnected and nothing like 30mW is getting out to the external antenna.
>
>Anyone have any hard figures or know what is going on?
>
>Thanks
>
>

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