Hello Everyone,
I would currently (until this is improved) avoid combo cards (or
802.11a cards specificially for your laptop) since their power consumption
is almost double of that of 802.11b cards. Unless battery life is not a
concern for you. ;-)
ORiNOCO Cards Power Consumption (from ORiNOCO's website)
Modes - Doze / Receiver / Transmit
Silver/Gold 9mA / 185mA / 285mA
Combo 15mA / 320mA / 560mA
I'm sticking with my (ORiNOCO, Avaya, Agere, or Lucent) Silver
cards... especially since you can get them for as low as $55 via
pricegrabber.com.
-Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NYC Wireless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nycwireless] choosing a pc card
> Or you can always wait for new cards :-)
>
> http://www.intersil.com/design/prism/prismduette/index.asp
>
> 802.11 alphabet soup.
>
> - Jon
>
> Christopher Mc Carthy wrote:
>
> >WRT question 2., the new Orinoco combo a/b card is the first new Orinoco
> >card since Proxim bought the division from Agere earlier this year. It
does
> >not use the tried/tested/loved (Lucent/Agere) Hermes chipset. Instead it
> >uses an Atheros chip, which has got very good reviews so far for 802.11a,
> >but as of yet I haven't seen anything about what Atheros can do in
802.11b.
> >
> >Also this combo card does not a connector for an external antenna
(another
> >reason why the Orinoco cards are so loved).
> >
> >Just a little caveat emptor, HTH.
> >
> >
> >--__--__--
> >
> >Message: 5
> >From: "Terrence Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 02:34:09 -0500
> >Subject: [nycwireless] choosing a pc card
> >
> >
> >Hello all:
> >
> >I am planning to purchase a wireless pc card for my vaio laptop. In
> >attending wed. meeting for the first time (which was very informative), I
> >gathered what most members use.
> >
> >1. Has anyone experienced problems in using the orinoco 802.11b wireless
pc
> >card gold or silver w/ their sony viao?
> >
> >2. Is it worth buying the ORiNOCO 802.11a/b ComboCard at this time?
> >
> >-Terrence
> >
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