If you bought your adapter in the UK and it is licensed for sale in the UK
then its drivers (or maybe firmware) are probably restricted to only offer
UK-legal options. (I believe that there is a power limit of 300mw in the
UK.) If this is the case you could try installing drivers/firmware from
some other part of the world.
An advantage of buying the generic Chinese version: no restrictions at all!
David
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From: "Martin N" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:30 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Boosting wireless reception on T23
Lo
At 19:59 06/04/2011, you wrote:
You can get 1 watt or higher USB wifi adapters for a very low price
nowadays. Here's one for around $20 including shipping:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/2000mw-high-power-802-11a-b-g-usb-wireless-network-dongle-with-10dbi-antenna-41934
or search eBay for RTL8187L. Even 500mW will perform much better than any
internal or pcmcia card.
I bought a Alfa AWUS036H usb WiFi adaptor and while its better than the
x30 internal wireless Intel 2200BG
it still drops in one room (horizontal to the router).
I have found a video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oypbBz6j6-Y
I get some of the extra tabs but not the "Tx power" in the general
tab and also no "CCX" tab that i expect to be able to increase the power
of the
Alfa adaptor.
Is there something else i need to do since its a UK sourced adaptor to
unlock
these options?
thanks for your time
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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