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    Wireless boot time?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by eddiebelfast, May 1, 2011.

  1. eddiebelfast

    eddiebelfast Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I have in the past owned several comps which connected to the web using a wireless setup ala USB wireless adapters or PCMCIA. I recently bought a laptop with built in wireless and noticed that the wireless boot time on this comp was virtually instant! Whereas the others didn't boot till after the O/S had been up for some time. Why?
    Is it because the ariel is bigger?
    Also, the on board card ( which the forum member who helped with a driver prob informed me was ancient ) out performs the adapters by a considerable margin.
    My router syncs at 14400 +/- 200 and this on board card gives me 85% of the sync speed which in my book is about max, yet the adapters only give about 65%. Why?

    The comps are/where all running Vista.

    cheers,
    Eddie.
     
    eddiebelfast, May 1, 2011
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    I believe the time to connect to the network is a lot faster on Windows 7 and Windows Vista compared to previous operating systems. (If you are using Windows.)

    The on-board card generally connects to two antennas on the laptop which take up more space than what can be fit into the portable adapters.

    Also, I found that my PCMCIA wireless card was quite sensitive to which direction the laptop was facing and I usually had to point it towards the direction of the router.
     
    namaiki, May 2, 2011
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  3. eddiebelfast

    eddiebelfast Notebook Enthusiast

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    Namaiki, thankyou for your reply.
     
    eddiebelfast, May 3, 2011
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