On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Kin Wong wrote: > Thanks to all concern -- Staples also carries the Linksys WRT54g but the > pricing on the shelf was not updated. There is a 20 instant discount > and a 20 mail in with the same resulting price.
Cool. I got a WRT54GL (ver4) and WRT54G (ver5) from Memory express this lunchtime. I'll flash the ver4 one straigh way and see how 'we' can get on with the smaller footprint of the ver4. > > I bought the Linksys WKPC54g from Staples so it made sense for me to go > back there. I hope that you were able to take the other unit back.... > > One thing I notice in my testing today, the WRT54g has two antennaes > while the WKPC54g has only one. At about 100 feet away, I got 1-2 bars > on the WRT54g while only 0-1 bars on the WKPC54g - so 2 antennae is better. > Even with the two antennas, only one is active at any time. One is always used for TX. RX uses one, and when it sees a poor quality signal it tries the other to see if it is better. The reason being is that sometimes multipath/reflections mean that by effectly moving the position of the antenna (by switching to the other one) you can get a better signal. Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
