On 2008-05-12, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A curiosity: by itself, the Hawking USB adapter has more or >> less sensitivity than the simple Airport glued to my Macbook >> motherboard? > > I think it depends a lot on the maturity of the drivers. As I > said, my Netgear PCI card uses the madwifi drivers and vastly > outperforms the Hawking adapter.
What do you mean by "outperform"? I can see how drivers can affect throughput. The Windows drivers for my Laptop's WiFi chipset (Intel Pro-something) only get about 1/4 of the bandwidth that the Linux drivers do. But, I don't understand how the driver can affect receiver sensitivity. That's purely a function of the design of the RF frontend. > The Hawking's drivers are fairly new (rt2x00) and madwifi has > been around for quite a while now. > > I do have another rt2x00 adapter that performs noticeably > worse than the Hawking. It's a Linksys and it has no external > antenna. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Zippy's brain cells at are straining to bridge visi.com synapses ... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list