Sharing my findings from my attempts to maximize router signal strength.
I have a Linksys WRT54G (v2) and Buffalo WHR-G125 configured as AP and wireless client.
Installed firmwares: Toastman (Tomato Firmware v1.28.7634 Toastman-IPT-ND ND VLAN-VPN) and shibby (Tomato Firmware 1.28.0005 112 ND SD-VPN) respectively.
Found that the WEB GUI's advanced wireless setting for Transmit Power is 400 maximum, but setting 400 will not give maximum signal strength.
Realized this when I telnet into the console and found 'wl txpwr' value is lower than if I set the Transmit Power to 0 in webgui.
See log:
(web-gui Transmit Power set to 400)
root@linksys:/tmp/home/root# wl txpwr
pwr in mw 104
pwr in mw after override adj 104
398
(web-gui Transmit Power set to 0)
root@linksys:/tmp/home/root# wl txpwr
pwr in mw 127
pwr in mw after override adj 127
1496
Can future firmware remove the 400 cap for the Transmit Power webgui setting, if i manual try wl txpwr values, mine goes up to 1455 giving the txpwr of 1496.
Just wondering if signal strength can be increased by any other settings?
