I've been searching quite a while on these forums about wifi transmit power changes.
I decided to open this issue again, because nothing has been found yet how to properly increase the output, no offense to oleg ofc, because the original asus firmware also doesnt work with it
I've been testing many tricks I found in this forum, but nothing seems to work.
what did I do:
nothing connected to the router, no usb devices.
set the different values of strength in the webadmin and measured it all with a professional wifi detector.
I made sure that the nothing was in between the router and the client and that the power value could raise and lower properly (not too close to the router).
it didn't really matter what power value I chose, the output stayed the same. I did noticed, that the transmit power was more stable on higher values than on lower values.
now I'm wondering... why is this value available while it doesn't change anything interesting, it might give you that little extra when you have nearly no reception... but that wouldn't be more than 1m difference.
I Know that the values in the webadmin are mW, so I looked it up on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm
as you can see in the table,the value 84mW is quite a bit under the Europian allowed 100mW. not that it would change anything as the value settings don't work... but asus assume you would only transmit on 17mW wich isn't as good as a laptop....
I've heared that openWRT has better wireless boosters, so maybe it's an idea to look up some things they did to amplify their networks, I mean... it's open right
I'm prepaired to make a graph with the best wireless output settings for the asus routers with olegs firmware... but then I will need oleg help with this
I hope you will