I'd have to dig around, but I'm pretty sure I have a wired ethernet card (PCMCIA) for the iPAQ.
On 05/17/2012 01:03 PM, Rick Kunze wrote: > At 11:05 AM 5/16/2012, you wrote: >> Trying to figure out a good way to do site surveys and monitor >> signal strength while on the customer's roof > To this day, I'm still using the same iPad PDA I used 12 years ago > when I bought it. I've not seen anything come along that would replace it. > > It's a PDA with the "accessory pack" thing attached, so that I can > run an Orinoco PCMCIA card in it. Someone back then whipped up > driver for WinCE so that the Orinico card worked. (Lonnie) With > that and a hand held small tubular yagi, it works like a charm. It > reads 802.11b only of course. Shows other AP's, signal strength, > noise floor, etc. I use a 15db yagi and pigtail to the > Orinoco. Climb onto the roof, sweep for signal, read the level, and > you can easily calculate margin for various alternative antennas. > > What I'd really like to find is a hand held device like that with an > Etnernet port. It seems nobody puts Ethernet ports in anything > smaller than a laptop and even that's getting replaced more and more > with wireless. > > Rk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
