ulterno
joined 4 months ago
Another chicken and egg problem.
I just keep it at the lowest power (20%) and am right now getting > -50dB (5 bars).
Of course, if you are doing it for the efficiency, you will also need to make sure that your receiver is not having a hard time with the low transmit power.
So, not caring, definitely works.
Yes!
The one I bought, doesn't overheat even at 100%, but the ISP one used to overheat even with the WiFi off.
On the other hand, I recently tried connecting my router directly to the ISPs network (trying to lose the NAT) and it was hanging every few minutes. I was running Wireshark and unable to configure it to get internet access.
I would consider the main reason for overheating to be internet traffic, but in some models, the WiFi makes the difference to.
I'm pretty sure none of my neighbours is techy enough to even know about WiFi Analyser.
Also, it's not congested enough yet.
Maybe if someone were to be making a 2.4 GHz receiver as an amateur project, it would matter.
I just like keeping it at a minimum, thinking that maybe it would reduce noise for others. Not that it really matters to anyone. Just a "feel good" thing.
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So, you needed the 100%
I looked into my router's datasheet and all I can say is that it either doesn't have it or they didn't care to write it in (home model, nobody cares about details).
Also, the settings interface doesn't have any reference, neither is the Transmit Power field saying "Max Transmit Power" (which would have lead me to believe that it may reduce the power in certain cases), so I am going to go with "No", considering how old it is
Hehe, I am still using my old router with only the 2.4GHz band. Mostly just as a switch, but the WiFi is useful sometimes.
ATPC
Ahh. Turns out I asked the question 10 years too late.
Simple. \n when you just want a newline.
endl when you need to flush at the moment.
Useful in case you are printing a debug output right before some function that might do bed stuff to buffers.
Edit: I wrote println instead of endl somehow. Guess I need more downtime