Customers might wonder if you're really up to snuff on this whole technology thing...
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Sam Tetherow <tethe...@shwisp.net> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
