[colug-432] DD-WRT

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I agree.  I've played with that setting while doing a wifi survey and didnt
see any change in signal strength (dd-wrt on linksys e2100l)
On Oct 24, 2011 1:34 AM, "Michael Yanovich" <yanovich.1 at osu.edu> wrote:

> I really don't believe that option in the DD-WRT menu for the power of
> the antennae actually does anything. I've put it at 250mW for various
> wireless routers of mine and they have been working fine for years.
>
> On 10/23/2011 07:31 PM, Larry Howell wrote:
> > Thomas W. cranston wrote:
> >> I am considering converting a WRT54G to DD-WRT. My initial consideration
> >> was to boost the output signal. I now realize I need to improve the
> >> antenna. Actually, it came w/Linksys 7dBi Hig Gain Antenna.
> >>
> >> What are the other benefits of converting to DD-WRT?
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >
> > DD-WRT is based on the released Linksys code.  Linksys outsourced the
> > development of the code and it was rather poorly done, with serious
> > security deficiencies.  The DD-WRT developers rewrote significant
> > sections of the original code to correct the security issues and add a
> > number of features.  The FCC power limit is 250 mW, but the Linksys
> > default is 28 mW.  With DD-WRT you can increase the power up to the 250
> > mW limit, but that _will_ fry the Broadcom CPU unless you add an
> > appropriate heatsink.  I used DD-WRT on my WRT54GS v2.1 and GL v1.0 to
> > ran at 100 mW for years without adding a heatsink and didn't have any
> > issues.
> >
> > FWIW, I switched to using OpenWRT a little over a year ago, which was
> > developed from scratch and IMO is higher quality code.
> >
> > Larry
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