Ipad from 12 years ago?  In 2000?  Didn't Apple just come out with the iPod
at this time?

Josh Luthman
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On May 17, 2012 2:03 PM, "Rick Kunze" <[email protected]> wrote:

> At 11:05 AM 5/16/2012, you wrote:
> >Trying to figure out a good way to do site surveys and monitor
> >signal strength while on the customer's roof
>
> To this day, I'm still using the same iPad PDA I used 12 years ago
> when I bought it.  I've not seen anything come along that would replace it.
>
> It's a PDA with the "accessory pack" thing attached, so that I can
> run an Orinoco PCMCIA card in it.  Someone back then whipped up
> driver for WinCE so that the Orinico card worked.  (Lonnie)  With
> that and a hand held small tubular yagi, it works like a charm.  It
> reads 802.11b only of course.  Shows other AP's, signal strength,
> noise floor, etc.  I use a 15db yagi and pigtail to the
> Orinoco.  Climb onto the roof, sweep for signal, read the level, and
> you can easily calculate margin for various alternative antennas.
>
> What I'd really like to find is a hand held device like that with an
> Etnernet port.  It seems nobody puts Ethernet ports in anything
> smaller than a laptop and even that's getting replaced more and more
> with wireless.
>
> Rk
>
>
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