Wireless Ghana

Long Distance WiFi– - Optimizing timeouts to prevent loss of throughput.

This document gives an overview of how you can maximize the throughput on a long distance 802.11b wireless link. In the field we use Atheros-based equipment within a NetBSD environment (CuWinWare: http://www.cuwireless.net/). This is a work in progress, and we don’t fully understand everything the manufacturers are doing, but these techniques have helped us to bridge links up to 15km with minimal throughput loss.

Long Distance WiFi - Optimizing timeouts to prevent loss of throughput.pdf