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On Monday 12 May 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2008-05-12, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> A curiosity: by itself, the Hawking USB adapter has more or |
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> >> less sensitivity than the simple Airport glued to my Macbook |
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> >> motherboard? |
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> > I think it depends a lot on the maturity of the drivers. As I |
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> > said, my Netgear PCI card uses the madwifi drivers and vastly |
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> > outperforms the Hawking adapter. |
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> What do you mean by "outperform"? I can see how drivers can |
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> affect throughput. The Windows drivers for my Laptop's WiFi |
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> chipset (Intel Pro-something) only get about 1/4 of the |
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> bandwidth that the Linux drivers do. |
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> But, I don't understand how the driver can affect receiver |
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> sensitivity. That's purely a function of the design of the RF |
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> frontend. |
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As modified by the firmware in the device. OK, it's not the driver per |
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se, but it's certainly not the hardware either |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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