[PLUG] Potential Solutions to Low Power Wireless Radio on Laptop?
Joe Pruett
joey at clean.q7.com
Fri Nov 20 17:01:52 UTC 2009
>> that is very odd. wireless in laptops have been pretty good for some time
>> now. i'd pop open the little door on the bottom and make sure that that
>> the antenna connections are solidly attached to the wireless card (most
>> like a mini pci-e card).
>
> Joe,
>
> It certainly took me by surprise. I'll check the laptop later today. If
> it's not a poor connection on the internal wireless card, what else might
> account for this behavior?
maybe stop trying to work inside a faraday cage? :-)
i'd run a signal strength tool (inssider or netstumbler for windows,
kismet or watch /proc/net/wireless for linux).
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