Signal Strength -86dB . Is it good?

[singhsaju]

I am trying to find if our new installation between Cisco 130 Bridges is good or not . Not able to find any documentation to read parameters . Can someone help?

Following is the ouput from the bridge:show dot11 ass all

Address : 001b.2a30.1460 Name : Calgary

IP Address : 192.168.100.99 Interface : Dot11Radio 0

Device : 11g-bridge Software Version : 12.3

CCX Version : NONE

State : Assoc Parent : self

SSID : Calgary VLAN : 0

Hops to Infra : 1 Association Id : 3

Clients Associated: 1 Repeaters associated: 0

Tunnel Address : 0.0.0.0

Key Mgmt type : NONE Encryption : WEP

Current Rate : 6.0 Capability : WMM ShortHdr ShortSlot

Supported Rates : 1.0 2.0 5.5 6.0 9.0 11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0

Voice Rates : disabled

Signal Strength : -86 dBm Connected for : 241 seconds

Signal to Noise : 14 dBm Activity Timeout : 29 seconds

Power-save : Off Last Activity : 1 seconds ago

Apsd DE AC(s) : NONE

Packets Input : 495 Packets Output : 1061

Bytes Input : 49678 Bytes Output : 105053

Duplicates Rcvd : 0 Data Retries : 375

Decrypt Failed : 0 RTS Retries : 51

MIC Failed : 0 MIC Missing : 0

Packets Redirected: 0 Redirect Filtered: 0

[Scott Fella]

I think is all depends on what traffic you are trying to send accross. -86dbm isn't usually that great of a singnal to many. If you take a look at:

Current Rate : 6.0 Capability : WMM ShortHdr ShortSlot

You can see your data rate is at 6.0 mbps.

[singhsaju]

Thanks for the reply fella5.

So how can i improve the Signal Strength?

Any ideas.

[singhsaju]

Thanks for the reply fella5.

So how can i improve the Signal Strength?

Any ideas.

[Scott Fella]

There are a couple of things. Channel selection might help if there is interference on your current link. You can verify that the alignment is as good as it gets or you can go with an external antenna with a higher gain if the 1300 allows you to have external antennas.