![]() ![]() You won't be able to set wireless power of greater than 20dBm on Gargoyle through the GUI, but you can edit the config file if you want to. What we really need is for someone to give us an EEPROM flash utility so we can set it to our correct country instead of the USA.Ĭaeci11ius wrote:Given I wrote the bit about uploading regulatory.bin on the OpenWRT wiki, yes you can. That said, the OpenWRT guys are the least to blame as they're kinda over a barrel as they need Atheros to provide details / assistance for driver writing. ![]() * OpenWRT because they insist on listening to Atheros etc (even though the hardware vendors like Netgear don't) when they ask them not to distribute firmware where the region can be changed (I'm of the opinion that if you're technical enough to understand flashing alternative firmware, you're probably also good enough to understand that you should set your reg domain correctly to stay on the right side of the law). * FCC because they think people are too dumb to set up their wireless routers properly and insist on complex methods to prevent this instead of just telling the manufacturers to leave the option to change it out of their default firmware for that region that, and they don't recognise that 95% of the world don't live in America). * Netgear because they don't bother to set their regdomain EEPROM correctly for all the markets they sell their hardware in.(though their firmware ignores it so that's ok in a way). It's nothing wrong with Gargoyle really, it's really an upstream openwrt / netgear / american FCC policy issue. CRDA + Regulatory db will limit you to lower values if it thinks this is appropriate (even when it's not.you've clearly read my rant about Netgear's stupid EEPROM / bad drivers following it on OpenWRT wiki so I won't bother repeating it here). Remember one more thing.just because the GUI says you're at x dBm doesn't mean you are.I'm pretty sure the box just reports whatever value is in the settings file. Also remember high power probably won't help with getting reception to far away devices, as the router may not be able to hear them should help with talking to other high powered routers though. Just letting you know that your mileage may vary. virtual hotspot) on Atheros chipset etc), so haven't reported it, but I'm getting short wireless dropouts periodically. I'm doing a lot of other weird stuff with wireless that I didn't set up through the GUI (WDS on 5GHz, WDS repeater (i.e. I initially thought it might be to do with running at high power, but now think it more likely that it's something else as I've turned power down and it's still happening. I've actually had some problems with the wireless on the most recent version. Still, if you're like me and use it mostly for the excellent usage accounting and QoS, go ahead. If you chmod 444 the wireless config file after editing it, the Gargoyle GUI won't be able to change it back either.though this will of course mean you have to set up all features affected by the wireless controls manually.can be a bit fiddly and defeats some of the point of using Gargoyle. You can find the max values supported by the hardware in the DD-WRT om memory it's 27dBm/22dBm on 2.4GHz for 20 and 40mhz channels and 24dBm on 5GHz. Given I wrote the bit about uploading regulatory.bin on the OpenWRT wiki, yes you can. ![]()
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