changing Transmit Power on Linksys wrt1900acs

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changing Transmit Power on Linksys wrt1900acs

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Installed 1.9.2 on a Linksys wrt1900acs about a week ago.
V smooth, and no problems.

One small thing doesn't seem to work:
I want to reduce the wireless 5ghz (or 2.4ghz) power
(being considerate of my neighbours and my brain).

But no matter what I set the Transmit Power to (2,..,20,...30)
the actual power output level stays the same.
Changing the channel works, just not Transmit Power.

Is this a gui problem
(in which case is there a cli command I can use)
or is it a limitation of the available wireless drivers?

fwiw, changing the Transmit Power on a Netgear wndr3800 running 1.9.1 works fine.
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Re: changing Transmit Power on Linksys wrt1900acs

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Hi sorry but it's driver. To get the latest you will have to wate untill Gargoyle starts building with LEDE as a base.
https://github.com/ericpaulbishop/gargoyle/issues/633
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Re: changing Transmit Power on Linksys wrt1900acs

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Thanks, no problem at all.

A few small compromises like that are worth it to use Gargoyle - a beautiful piece of work.
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Re: changing Transmit Power on Linksys wrt1900acs

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Just wanted to bump this. On the wrt1900acs v2, gargoyle 1.12.0, seems like the default is still maximum transmit power. Can't seem to change it.

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Re: changing Transmit Power on Linksys wrt1900acs

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The answer hasn’t changed. The driver doesn’t allow it to be changed.
http://lantisproject.com/downloads/gargoyle_ispyisail.php for the latest releases
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