eh, affected, whatever. Yes, on the same frequency. It was late ;) There is though as best I recall one flavor that uses a different frequency. If I get a chance later I'll google. As for power saving... well, fine. It is a feature I would avoid like the plague personally but ok. Strikes me as unhelpful over engineering...
On 12/30/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:56 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Wireless/internet connection drops > > > > why in the world does a wireless card need power management features > > anyway? > > Wireless is a pretty hefty power hog - leaving it enabled constantly can > often reduce laptop charge life by 25%. For smaller devices (PDAs, Game > systems, etc) the drain can be even greater. > > Most often this is handled manually - just turn wireless off - but various > schemes have been created to limit usage dynamically in an attempt to > prolong battery life. > > > And I thought you said the wireless was up except that one connection > > to the > > internet? > > I would still think that DNS is a prime suspect there - in normal usage > only > the internet would be stricken "dead" by lack of DNS resolution while > other > services (LAN, print sharing, etc) would still work. > > What this might have to do with power saving is a mystery, but if the > solution works I wouldn't get too concerned about it. ;^) > > > For what it is worth, it is a fact that one of the 802.11 protocols (I > > think > > but don't quite remember for sure that it is b) is notorious for being > > interfered with by cordless phones. The solution as I recall was going > > to > > It's not really that the protocol is affected but rather that both > technologies use the same spectrum (2.4 GHz). When you've got a lot of > competing traffic on the same band things are bound to get garbled. > > > to the newer iteration, g as I recall. To check what I am saying here > > google > > "b" and "g" (and "a" for that matter) all use 2.4GHz but "G" is definitely > the more advanced of them - better error recovery and so forth. With the > models mentioned tho' I assumed that "G" was already in use. > > I think (but I'm not sure) that "N" (the newest, and yet to be fully > ratified flavor) uses 2.4GHz as well but that the newer wide-area > protocols > ("WiMAX" for example) use a higher, more powerful frequency. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249305 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
