I have a little Acer netbook that I take up with me. It weighs as much as an ipad. I just hate that I cant see it in the sunlight very good.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeromie Reeves Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:31 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Site Survey Method Many android tablets have ethernet ports. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Google-Android-2-3-PC-Netbook-Tablet-4GB-Superpad-GPS-HDMI-Camera-Bundle-/261026229869?pt=US_Tablets&hash=item3cc6602e6d On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
