Whiffle
November 24th, 2007, 02:39 PM
/gloat on
So here we are, my neighbor with her shiny new macbook pro ( i assume running leapoard, its like a week old), my dad with his thinkpad t60 running vista, and my with my thinkpad t43 running linux. Here we all are, trying to get on the internet with a distant access point. Here are the results:
1) t43 w/ linux. When I first show up, I see one AP. I up the power and sensitivity on my wireless card ( intel 2915ABG), and see 4 access points, and can connect to one reliably. I add a command to wifi radar to tell it to up the power every time it connects to the AP, and I've got reliable internet as long as im sitting in the right spot.
2) T60 w/ vista. Oh what fun. It sees 2 of the ap's. I find a setting in about 3 places that has the wireless set to "maximum power savings." I think, well thats silly, we're running off the wall, and change it to "maximum performance". I continue to try to connect, not much luck. I go back to the power settings, they've reset themselves to "Maximum Power Savings"! !! ! Grr. I think my dad eventually got it to stick to that setting somehow and we got it to work, but it wasn't easy.
3) Macbook Pro- Sees 1 AP, can't connect to it, "times out", and I havn't found any power settings yet. Its sitting here next to me, asleep. Woo hoo.
So yeah, I don't think its any real clear indication that one laptop or os is better, but it is true that I had almost no problem getting on the internet, and everyone else did, or didn't get on at all. :-P Woo. /gloat off
So here we are, my neighbor with her shiny new macbook pro ( i assume running leapoard, its like a week old), my dad with his thinkpad t60 running vista, and my with my thinkpad t43 running linux. Here we all are, trying to get on the internet with a distant access point. Here are the results:
1) t43 w/ linux. When I first show up, I see one AP. I up the power and sensitivity on my wireless card ( intel 2915ABG), and see 4 access points, and can connect to one reliably. I add a command to wifi radar to tell it to up the power every time it connects to the AP, and I've got reliable internet as long as im sitting in the right spot.
2) T60 w/ vista. Oh what fun. It sees 2 of the ap's. I find a setting in about 3 places that has the wireless set to "maximum power savings." I think, well thats silly, we're running off the wall, and change it to "maximum performance". I continue to try to connect, not much luck. I go back to the power settings, they've reset themselves to "Maximum Power Savings"! !! ! Grr. I think my dad eventually got it to stick to that setting somehow and we got it to work, but it wasn't easy.
3) Macbook Pro- Sees 1 AP, can't connect to it, "times out", and I havn't found any power settings yet. Its sitting here next to me, asleep. Woo hoo.
So yeah, I don't think its any real clear indication that one laptop or os is better, but it is true that I had almost no problem getting on the internet, and everyone else did, or didn't get on at all. :-P Woo. /gloat off