D2Hs & WT-2 on Wireless Ad-Hoc and Access Point

SzennyBoy · 10th May 2005

Hi guys,

For anyone here who are planning to get the WT-2 for their D2x or D2Hs, I've just finished setting up my WiFi connections on my laptop for both the peer-to-peer Ad-Hoc and the infrastructure Access Point configurations on this baby...

... and these are typical transfer times for an uncompressed raw NEF file (approx. 6.7Mb).

Access point connection (11g protocol) - approximately 6secs
- Camera approx. 5m from access point
- 128-bit WEP encryption activated

Peer-to-peer Ad-Hoc connection (11b protocol) - approximately 18secs
- Camera right next to laptop
- No encryption activated

Wai · 10th May 2005

max range?

SzennyBoy · 10th May 2005

Originally Posted by Wai

max range?

I've manage to test that yesterday "shooting" my daughter at play outside the house and that was up to 80m away from the Access Point in the house. It was in the infrastructure mode and the uploading speed did drop to about 10secs.

To quote, here are the typical ranges on the ASUS WL-330g Pocket Wireless Access Point unit I'm getting for my field work:

Indoor 40m (130ft)
semi-open 100m (330ft)
outdoor (LOS, Line-Of-Sight) 457m (1500ft)

I'm not really bothering with the Peer-to-Peer Ad-Hoc mode and plan to use that only as a backup system if the AP fails.

BTW, the FTP server I'm using is an open source program called FileZilla.

mervlam · 10th May 2005

technically speaking, u can increase the upload speed by a bit if u use a 64-bit or lower encryption. using 11g is better than 11b, of course, without speaking.

SzennyBoy · 15th May 2005

Originally Posted by mervlam

technically speaking, u can increase the upload speed by a bit if u use a 64-bit or lower encryption. using 11g is better than 11b, of course, without speaking.

mervlam... I agree that the speed and transmission range can be increased by lowering the encryption level and that is something I may do depending on my location. Thanks for that reminder.

BTW now that I've got all my components together, I thought I'd post a quick snap shot of the entire wireless system I'm using. As for the wireless AP, I'm actually using the D-Link DWL-G730AP instead of the ASUS unit due to lack of stock issues.

glennyong · 15th May 2005

cool setup~

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SzennyBoy Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 694	D2Hs & WT-2 on Wireless Ad-Hoc and Access Point Hi guys, For anyone here who are planning to get the WT-2 for their D2x or D2Hs, I've just finished setting up my WiFi connections on my laptop for both the peer-to-peer Ad-Hoc and the infrastructure Access Point configurations on this baby... ... and these are typical transfer times for an uncompressed raw NEF file (approx. 6.7Mb). Access point connection (11g protocol) - approximately 6secs - Camera approx. 5m from access point - 128-bit WEP encryption activated Peer-to-peer Ad-Hoc connection (11b protocol) - approximately 18secs - Camera right next to laptop - No encryption activated Last edited by SzennyBoy; 10th May 2005 at 04:49 AM.

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mervlam Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2,422	technically speaking, u can increase the upload speed by a bit if u use a 64-bit or lower encryption. using 11g is better than 11b, of course, without speaking.