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From: Alan Secker on 18 Aug 2008 06:54 When I ordered a 901, I got a 900 by mistake. Not realising this for a couple of days, I ran it up and was delighted with it. However, I had ordered an Atom powered model and sent the 900 back. The 901 is equally fine in every respect except one, the Wifi is very flaky and gives a 45% signal strength when about two feet (say 60cm) from the Wireless router. I read one letter on the net suggesting the WiFI unit on the 901 was in fact inferior, Has anyone else any experience with it? (I also posted this on ther Mandriva sdite in error, by the way).
From: Bernard Peek on 18 Aug 2008 07:29 In message <856dnQy3V7BDyjTVnZ2dnUVZ8rednZ2d(a)pipex.net>, Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk> writes >When I ordered a 901, I got a 900 by mistake. Not realising this for a >couple of days, I ran it up and was delighted with it. However, I had >ordered an Atom powered model and sent the 900 back. > >The 901 is equally fine in every respect except one, the Wifi is very flaky >and gives a 45% signal strength when about two feet (say 60cm) from the >Wireless router. I read one letter on the net suggesting the WiFI unit on >the 901 was in fact inferior, Has anyone else any experience with it? No direct experience but I recall a review of WiFi devices in one of the comics. One of the devices they reviewed had very poor connectivity when close to the router but better further away. You may find that you get better reception if you move a few metres away from the router. -- Bernard Peek London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author.
From: Daniel James on 18 Aug 2008 09:08 In article news:<856dnQy3V7BDyjTVnZ2dnUVZ8rednZ2d(a)pipex.net>, Alan Secker wrote: > The 901 is equally fine in every respect except one, the Wifi is very > flaky ... Tim Anderson has been having difficulties with WiFi on the 901 -- there's some discussion and some possible workarounds on his blog ... http://www.itwriting.com/blog/category/linux Cheers, Daniel.
From: Alan Secker on 18 Aug 2008 18:36 Bernard Peek wrote: > In message <856dnQy3V7BDyjTVnZ2dnUVZ8rednZ2d(a)pipex.net>, Alan Secker > <alan(a)asandco.co.uk> writes >>When I ordered a 901, I got a 900 by mistake. Not realising this for a >>couple of days, I ran it up and was delighted with it. However, I had >>ordered an Atom powered model and sent the 900 back. >> >>The 901 is equally fine in every respect except one, the Wifi is very >>flaky and gives a 45% signal strength when about two feet (say 60cm) from >>the Wireless router. I read one letter on the net suggesting the WiFI unit >>on the 901 was in fact inferior, Has anyone else any experience with it? > > No direct experience but I recall a review of WiFi devices in one of the > comics. One of the devices they reviewed had very poor connectivity when > close to the router but better further away. You may find that you get > better reception if you move a few metres away from the router. > > > It was the other way round, I moved towards it until I got some signal. Most of the time it was negligible. At present our guests have a Pentium III laptop with a Linksys wireless card that does better and a MacBook Pro that does even better.
From: Alan Secker on 18 Aug 2008 18:39 Daniel James wrote: > In article news:<856dnQy3V7BDyjTVnZ2dnUVZ8rednZ2d(a)pipex.net>, Alan Secker > wrote: >> The 901 is equally fine in every respect except one, the Wifi is very >> flaky ... > > Tim Anderson has been having difficulties with WiFi on the 901 -- there's > some discussion and some possible workarounds on his blog ... > > http://www.itwriting.com/blog/category/linux > > Cheers, > Daniel. I think that will help solve one problem but from the signal level my from what I've read, my guess is that I will also need a new Wireless card. I intend to install Mandriva One as soon as i can. That apparently is EEE configured. Thanks very much for the link. I will probably try that first. Regards, Alan
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