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to: Glenn Meadows
from: Frank Haber
date: 2007-05-10 15:18:54
subject: Re: T-Mobile plans phones that can use Wi-Fi

From: "Frank Haber" 

Glenn,

What Toshiba laptop is that?  How many in the company?  I ask because from
3-5 years ago I had the worst luck with Toshes, including the alleged
biz-grade Tecras.  Bad drivers; bad optical-drive firmware; stinko BIOSes,
and, worst of all, chronic overheating when the Al heatsink paste on the
CPU dried out (6 mo.).

Some more wireless datapoints:

11.n includes 5GHz in its spec.  I haven't seen a webmin exposure of 5GHz
only yet.  It'll be a while before I trust N.  (I'm getting better results
in the NYC RF zoo with the ancient 3-duckie Belkin Pre-N router.) Apple's
works, but as usual, tells you nothing.  Pass/Fail, and don't ask questions
- no surprise there.

The several excellent 3rd-party firmwares for the classic Linksys routers
have always had power adjustment. 85mW seems not to blow the RF output
stage, for most folks (g).

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