set_power 5 is bad?

[Ganesha Bhaskara]

On ಸೋ, 2007-10-08 at 00:43 +0000, Tobias Neumann wrote:
> Sascha Heid wrote:
> 
> > powertop suggest to use "iwpriv set_power 5 but on my
> > thinkpad-x60t/ipw3945 this makes wlan so slow its useless. 
"iwpriv set_power 5" works very well for me on my Dell 700m with ipw2200
driver for 2915 chipset. This is generally independent of the AP in my
case.

-G
> 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?
> 
> Yes same here.
> 
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