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Do Atheros Mini PCI Wireless cards really improve performance?

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DaFOBulous1

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At home, most likely not but I'm thinking about increasing my range with my school's network and so forth.

Not worth it? Worth it?
 
Atheros make a line of mini-pci cards with outrageous power, designed to go in dedicated radio enclosures with real antennas. Some folks put them into laptops, even though it is a bad idea, according to atheros.
 
Originally posted by: skyking
Atheros make a line of mini-pci cards with outrageous power, designed to go in dedicated radio enclosures with real antennas. Some folks put them into laptops, even though it is a bad idea, according to atheros.
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? Don't most of the new laptops have the Athernos card now? I just wanted to know if I would actually see any noticable difference with range compared to my current one. Especially that 2X range technology they refer to.
 
I'm referrring to some really high powered cards , like 800 or more mw. atheros made those for installations with proper cooling, they get overly hot in a lappy.
I don't know about the cards your talking about.
 
I think the Atheros and Intel are pretty equivelant. I like the ACU for configuration of a single laptop, I like the Intel Admin tool/profile .exe builders better for mass rollouts
 
at one time i had a 100 mw cisco 350 pcmcia card, it was a noticable difference, but my concern with those 400mw ones is how clean is the signal, i mean sure i can put a 1 watt amp on my pci linksys card, but it wont come close to the singal quality of my cisco pci 350 card with the same amp...yes i know those are old cards, and yes im aware that a 1 watt amp on a 100 mw card is scating teh edge of the legal limit for that sprectum... but i can still do it
 
I switched from intel 2200b/g to atheros 6002x, and let me tell you, it's a world of difference.

Finds signals that the intel never saw, signal strength is stronger, I get better speeds.

But the intels have been a hit and miss (mostly miss from what I've been reading)
 
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