Better at WiFi than any laptop?
 

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My N800 is the most sensitive device I've tried, by far. It's incredible what it can lock on to. For those occasions where it can't lock on to a weak access point the problem seems to be that the AP itself isn't good at reception (The N800 can see the AP, but the AP can't see the N800). I've used networks more than 150 meters from the AP.

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Yep, that's true. I have an old netgear 802.11b upstairs, and my Powerbook doesn't manage to lock on it while downstairs. N800 does, and to my astonishment also reports 4 WLANs belonging to neighbours of mine, from inside my house (which has a copper roof), and which are 150-200 mt far. Impressive. Kudos to the little beast :-)

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If it wasn't for the N800 I wouldn't know that I had an open WiFi close to my house and I wouldn't have arranged my WiFi routers in such a way to properly steal that WiFi signal :)

It can see and often connect to APs no one else (I mean WiFi equipped devices) could even see.

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Wireless reception is one thing, but being able to connect is another matter entirely and this is where the N800 (and 770) is lacking.

Check bugzilla for all the EAP/PEAP WiFi related bug/enhancement requests. Without EAP/PEAP support it's pretty difficult to connect to free campus based WiFi so yes great reception, less than great connectivity.

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Has anybody found any test results of the n800/770 reception? I'd love to see some measurements.

I installed DD-WRT on my WRT54GS to use the site survey feature. I thought that the router with its large antennas would outperform my nokia tablets. It may have found 1 network (I forget) whereas my nokias usually see about 4 other networks. Now I know why I often see networks that I can't connect to.

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The N800 easily surpasses every other piece of wifi hardware I have. I can see a ton more connection points than with anything else.

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My N800 certainly sees a lot of networks, but connecting is not easy.
For example at work, we have a hidden network to be used by customers. My N800 connects, gets an ip-adr, but it is impossible to browse to any url.
My notebook connects without problems.

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As I've related before, my N800 surpasses my IBM T43 (itself a reliable beast) in locating wifi nodes.

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This morning I was waiting in my car for a shop to open, and fiddled a bit with the N800 in the meantime. I could see the airport hotspot.. the airport must be something like a kilometer (0.6-0.7 miles) away (direct view though). I didn't even think of trying to connect, I can't imagine their antenna would be able to receive the signal from the N800.