Actually, 775084 / 69414397 = 0.0111 or well under 2%. That's not an excessive amount of errors, in my opinion.
When you say you're getting 3 mb/s throughput, is that just on your LAN and between the APs?
Or between APs and then out to the WAN (Internet?) ?
Are there any 802.11b devices connected while you're running these tests?
B/G channels should be 5 channels apart to prevent overlap. e.g. channels 1, 6 and 11 have no overlap; channels 4 and 9 have no overlap. But you have 2 APs talking to each other - you WANT them on the same channel... you might do a site survey and see if there are any rogue APs nearby using channels 1 through 8, since you're on channel 4. Actually, if you're transmitting outside you should try to stay on 9, 10 or 11.
What's the clearance zone around the line of sight?
What's the height of the antennae and the distance between them?
And it appears your power is turned up too high for the gain level you have.
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by: Matt_T_hatPosted on 2008-02-28 at 09:11:22ID: 21005870
You are getting a lot of output errors. I would try the following things (in no specific order).
* Get the units physically closer if possible.
* Use different channels that are at least 2 numbers different (for example 1 and 3 or 2 and 4)
* check for power lines, microwaves, lead or other metal linings in walls or other objects in the LOS between units.
* Check for high power units (microwave ovens, cell phone aerials, bluetooth devices etc) within range of the units.
* running each unit as an AP and testing the speed through (there is always the slim chance that you have a duff unit).
* checking silly things like antenna which sometimes cause problems if not perfectly verticle (I have no idea why this is as this is not my field).
Let us know which of these you are able to eliminate and if this reduces the error rate.