Gareth Davis > Andrew Bowden wrote: > > You still have a Wavefinder? Blimey. I threw mine in the bin in a > > fit of rage after it caused the signal to break up for about the > > twentith time in the space of 30 minutes. That Wavefinder > > caused me > > so much stress and grief it was insane. > I still have one, I found most of the problems I had with it > were down to the rubbish power supply that come with it. > After I chopped the power lead in half and added a molex > connector to power it from the 12v supply inside the PC it > behaved much better - rather than dropping out whenever the > blue LED came on and the extra current draw overloaded the > rubbish PSU. I suspect most of the surviving ones have had > some kind of mod involving the power supply.
I ditched the original PSU as soon as I found out that was part of the cause. Then I added an app which disabled the LEDs as well - which did help. I spent ages trying to find the part of the room with the best signal too! Next task was to buy a powered USB hub, and plug it into that - which also helped a little. But still it was a nightmare :( The other flaw was the USB plug on it - my main PC ran (as it does now) Linux, so the Wavefinder was always plugged into a laptop which ran Windows XP. But if you nudged ever so slightly the laptop, the cable would come lose, and the whole thing would lock up and refuse to work. The only solution was to reboot Windows! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
