<p>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)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 24, 2011 1:34 AM, "Michael Yanovich" <<a href="mailto:yanovich.1@osu.edu">yanovich.1@osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I really don't believe that option in the DD-WRT menu for the power of<br>
the antennae actually does anything. I've put it at 250mW for various<br>
wireless routers of mine and they have been working fine for years.<br>
<br>
On 10/23/2011 07:31 PM, Larry Howell wrote:<br>
> Thomas W. cranston wrote:<br>
>> I am considering converting a WRT54G to DD-WRT. My initial consideration<br>
>> was to boost the output signal. I now realize I need to improve the<br>
>> antenna. Actually, it came w/Linksys 7dBi Hig Gain Antenna.<br>
>><br>
>> What are the other benefits of converting to DD-WRT?<br>
>><br>
>> Tom<br>
>><br>
><br>
> DD-WRT is based on the released Linksys code. Linksys outsourced the<br>
> development of the code and it was rather poorly done, with serious<br>
> security deficiencies. The DD-WRT developers rewrote significant<br>
> sections of the original code to correct the security issues and add a<br>
> number of features. The FCC power limit is 250 mW, but the Linksys<br>
> default is 28 mW. With DD-WRT you can increase the power up to the 250<br>
> mW limit, but that _will_ fry the Broadcom CPU unless you add an<br>
> appropriate heatsink. I used DD-WRT on my WRT54GS v2.1 and GL v1.0 to<br>
> ran at 100 mW for years without adding a heatsink and didn't have any<br>
> issues.<br>
><br>
> FWIW, I switched to using OpenWRT a little over a year ago, which was<br>
> developed from scratch and IMO is higher quality code.<br>
><br>
> Larry<br>
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