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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 |
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>Craig Zeigler <craig@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something |
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>>like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA |
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>>card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by |
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>>forcing more power to it? will the PCMCIA bus permit diverting more |
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>>power to a card? |
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>Huh? "Forcing more power to the card"?!? You mean, increase the |
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>current? Or how else do you want to archieve that? Nah, this wouldn't |
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>work. You'd have to set up power level by means of the pcmcia card, |
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>that is by using "iwconfig ... power ...", in most cases. |
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>Well, and I know a few PCMCIA cards that do 100mWatts output. In fact, |
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>a whole bunch of APs internally use standard WLAN cards that are just |
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>flashed with a different Firmware. |
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>-hwh |
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thats pretty cool to know. When I take a PCMCIA card out of my laptop |
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its quite hot. I was just wondering if asking it to draw more power (in |
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oncrease transmit power) would pose a cooling problem. The APs have the |
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benefit of at least convection cooling. not to mention better antennas. |
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