General question on wireless

[Chris Kacoroski <kacoroski@comcast.net>]

Hi,

Now that I have it working on the 5100, I have a question about what I 
am seeing in wavemon.  With a dell 1150 and drivers native to debian, I 
get a link quality of about 25/92, signal is about 30% of the bar and 
red, and I get both noise and a signal to noise ratio.

I also have a dell 1300 that I am using with the ndiswrapper and the 
latest xp drivers from dell.  With this card the link quality is 100%, 
signal level is -75db (red bar, about the same as the 1150), but there 
is no noise bar.or signal to noise ratio bar.

Which card is getting better reception?  Which one should I keep?  the 
1300 is supposedly a faster card (although it connected at the same 
11Mbits/sec -- I suppose this is all the base station in the library 
will support).  The 1300 does support scanning which the 1150 does not.

Is there a website that can help me get up to speed on wireless on linux 
and what are good numbers from a card/access point combination.  I have 
numbers, I just really do not know what they mean.

thanks very much.

ski


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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski@comcast.net, 435-681-0092