On Mar 8, 12:54=A0am, Ted Lee <TMP...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Brief re****t. =A0It works. =A0Instructions are lousy. =A0Definitely
pickin=
g
> up networks my built-in Air****t card wasn't, and so far in a couple of
> hours of testing it's kept a solid connection. =A0Only minor
> disappointment is that contrary to what the do***entation says it
> doesn't appear to wake up from sleep by itself -- but if you turn it
> off and on from the utility supplied that does the trick (I may call
> and discuss it.) =A0I suspect if someone had an older machine and wanted
> to upgrade to 802.11n their newer PCMCIA card that also includes that
> would be an attractive way of doing it.
>
Follow up -- (should probably have posted this to the wireless
newsgroup too) -- it's beginning to look like the problem is not with
my Mac's air****t card afterall. My DSL modem is an Actiontec, which
is wireless. Because it wouldn't carry Appletalk years ago I had to
add a Linksys WRT54G as my wireless. It is beginning to look like
it's the Linksys that's failing, not my Powerbook's Air****t. Even
with the Quickertek wireless I was in some locations getting a bad
connection to the Linksys. (link kept disconnecting.) I turned on the
wireless on the Actiontec -- which is sitting right next to the
Linksys -- and the connection appears to be solid, and if I switch
back to the Linksys immediately it gets flakey. The only reason I
hadn't suspected the Linksys is because my wife's Mini is also
connected to it wirelessly, but doesn't have any problem (or at least
not a noticeable one.) It could just be its enough closer that it
isn't yet affected by what's going wrong. One good thing about
getting the Quickertek is I can see all the link statistics and it's
gettling me a lot of packets are getting CRC failures, even though the
signal is strong. Stay tuned -- I think I'll experiment with
different channels.
Ted Lee
Minnetonka, MN
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