set_power 5 is bad?

[Kelly Anderson]

Sascha Heid wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> powertop suggest to use "iwpriv set_power 5 but on my
> thinkpad-x60t/ipw3945 this makes wlan so slow its useless. Always
> loosing connection to the AP and doing reconnects all the time while
> being only inches away from the AP (the famous blue linksys one).
> set_power 7 works perfect for me.
>
> Anyone made the same experiences?
>
>   
My Toshiba with ipw3945 seems to work fine with power at 5 or 7 in 
conjunction with a Linksys router.