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I have a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router with the 1.3.10 Gargoyle firmware. I was taking a look at the setting for increasing your transmit power. The issue is I want to set it to around 27-29dbm but cant since the range is limited to 0-20. I don't understand this because in OpenWrt you can set it to 27dbm and beyond. I know from smallnetbuilder.com that this router can push out 29dbm. My question is, does the older 1.3.5 fw have a broader range and if not is there any way to increase this setting?

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At the same Gargoyle 1.3.13, guys really need help

As Eric wrote in an other post If you will force the wireless always use channel width 40 MHz, add the option 'noscan' equal 1 in the wireless config file.

About the Tx Power its depended which channel you use in 5 GHz range. With US as regdomain and channel from 149 you can gain max. output (30), lower max. (17)
cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)
cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211: (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)

excuse my ignorance, but where to enter "cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US" ??

Veres wrote:excuse my ignorance, but where to enter "cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US" ??

You don't need it, just sysinfo by running Putty; dmesg. What I want to tell you is the Tx power is depended which channel you do use with the set of regdomain, ex. US, Canada or Europe

List of WLAN channels

Try this: ssh to router using whatever you choose. Putty, terminal, etc.

Type: iwlist txpower
Look at wlan0. This will show current txpower setting.

Type: iwconfig wlan0 txpower 27
This will change the txpower setting to 27dBm (501mW)

Confirm with iwlist txpower
Should now show wlan0 with increased txpower.

Hope this helps.