Closed mstormi closed 3 years ago
I don't know, I think that leaving it to its default and letting any enterprising users change it by doing it manually is better. I don't know about you but I don't think I want to support that sort of feature when a user can easily set it to the wrong value and screw up their system so it doesn't work the way it should. This seems a little advanced for the average user.
I don't know about any max for the US, I sure there is one but I don't think it is that low.
Hmm. Yeah, looking after Wi-Fi issues, I was quite enthusiastic to find this in the first place, then again later on it turned out it's using the maximum already so I now agree we can't win anything there all we might get is more issues if someone reduces it.
Just came across the info that e.g.
iwconfig wla0 transmit 30
will set transmit power on a Wi-Fi interfaces incl. RPi's internal.Seems the default 'auto' option sets it to maximum (31) Shall we add a menu 1X option to allow to limit txpower?
FWIW, the allow maximum (in Germany only?) is 1000mW = 30dBm or rather some less (400mW on 5 GHz, 200 mW on 2.4GHz) see https://wiki.freifunk.net/WLAN-Antennen