I thought that Ron Doran would be a good guess to get an answer on this one. Not many realize how much knowledge he has on PCs and related hardware.
So here it goes.
Last night I was chatting with a friend and we recall how one of my Laptop has an incredible range with wireless PCMCIA network cards.
This card was swap to 3 different lappys and 4 different cards where installed on the laptop. It was in an hotel room and it was repeated in at least 3 different hotels.
This laptop has a range double the distance than any other tested and with any cards.
We stand in the car outside the hotel and with any cards I get 100% reception. Any card in other laptops barely get a signal.
So why is this?
It does this with two old Dell Latitude and one thing that pops to mind is that anything we insert in them has a tenancy to be hotter than normal. Its like that wether running on batteries or AC.
For instance, the cards when removed where feeling a lot hotter than when they are installed in other laptops.
Could the voltage regulator be a bit too high? If so would it increase the range?
Just a funny thing that make me curious.
And have any of you observed that any wireless card has a lot better range than any built-in wirelesslaptops?
So here it goes.
Last night I was chatting with a friend and we recall how one of my Laptop has an incredible range with wireless PCMCIA network cards.
This card was swap to 3 different lappys and 4 different cards where installed on the laptop. It was in an hotel room and it was repeated in at least 3 different hotels.
This laptop has a range double the distance than any other tested and with any cards.
We stand in the car outside the hotel and with any cards I get 100% reception. Any card in other laptops barely get a signal.
So why is this?
It does this with two old Dell Latitude and one thing that pops to mind is that anything we insert in them has a tenancy to be hotter than normal. Its like that wether running on batteries or AC.
For instance, the cards when removed where feeling a lot hotter than when they are installed in other laptops.
Could the voltage regulator be a bit too high? If so would it increase the range?
Just a funny thing that make me curious.
And have any of you observed that any wireless card has a lot better range than any built-in wirelesslaptops?