Gargoyle Forum

How is the country set in 1.12?

I have been using TX power level of 150 mW/21.7 dBm for years now. I doubt another dB or two will make a significant difference in signal quality at the far end. The ERP result, of the antenna gain (can't remember the spec), link budget, would need to be calculated. I am guessing the distance is 100-150 feet.

Being curious, I checked the specs of the antenna. The forward gain is 7.5 dBi @ 5.8 GHz (5.4 dBd), the cable loss is 2.15 dB/m, @ 30", so roughly 2 dB. The ERP is 23.4 dBm.

The net result at the far end with an increase of 2-3 dBm, will most likely have little effect. The most effect, will be the higher current draw of the PA's in the router and heat dissipation, requiring forced air cooling, or catastrophic failure of the radios will occur.

I am wondering more, what causes the dropouts, and why the throughput is trash until a reboot is performed.

I don’t think I can answer those for you sorry, there are no clues in the log as to why either one is happening.

One thought, do you control the upstream AP? If so, can you turn on WDS mode instead of relying on the pseudo bridge. This may alleviate some flakiness.

You said that the country can be set, just not through the GUI.

I do control the upstream router, which is running stock Netgear firmware.

You need to locate your 2 letter country code:
https://github.com/ericpaulbishop/gargo ... rylist.txt

Then
uci set wireless.radio0.country='US'
uci set wireless.radio1.country='US'
uci commit wireless
wifi

Substitute US for your appropriate code. The final “wifi” command will restart the wifi connection.


If running stock Netgear firmware, see if there is an Advanced Setup area where you can enable repeating function. You will need to set it up as the “base station” rather than the repeater.
Then you can switch to WDS mode on Gargoyle. In that mode the IP setting should be INSIDE the upstream AP subnet.

No repeater. There is either router or AP.

There are also VLAN/Bridge settings.

Locate and substitute US to my appropriate country code, makes no sense to me. Is it not US?

How do I check what the router country is currently set for?

If you’re in the US, use US. I didn’t want to presume your location.

“iw reg get”
Will tell you what it is currently set to.
A lack of any specific setting defaults to “world” or “00”, which is a safe minimum across all regulatory areas.