Anyone got any advice on a low power (ie least damage to notebook battery life) wifi card?
Do usb adapters draw less power?
Yours ignorantly...
simonA
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The drivers for both my built in Broadcom and my dLink DWL-G630 have power controls available. You can set output power level and power saving (I presume that shuts the transmitter off unless needed) modes. These settings are available from the Device Manager.
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If your existing adapter's driver does not provide a power throttle for output strength, which not all of them do, then you can either get one that does or, yes, buy a USB adapter because they do use less power (I've never seen one over 70 mW, whereas PCMCIA/CardBus/miniPCI can get up to 200mW).
You can check out this nifty table of adapters (or this one, for g) which tells you what all of their transmit power ranges are in mW and dBm.
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low power wireless / wifi card?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by simonappleton, Mar 18, 2005.