James, As [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out about a week ago, transmit power is half of the picture. Receive sensitivity is the other part. High transmit power does not help if the received signal is too weak to hear. [EMAIL PROTECTED] favors Cisco radios for their superb receive sensitivity. I recall that his comments were directed at Cisco 802.11b cards but may apply to .g also.
Regards, Loren Zemenick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James W. Tseng Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Which 802.11g PC card to get??? In answer to some questions, I have a relatively modern notebook that is running XP Pro. I believe it takes CardBus just fine. I think spending anything over $100 would be extravagant, but I want the best bang for my buck (who doesn't?). I saw a Senao (sp?) 802.11g card listed for $81 on some site. It has 200mW output, I believe. I'm working on the assumption that 200mW is better than 30mW, but I'm not sure why. Again, I'm assuming that the higher the output power, the better the transmission and (hopefully) reception. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
