Thread: Turn wifi down to 10mW
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sljonson is offline sljonson
2009-12-10 , 18:18
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#19
Originally Posted by Florob View Post
Okay, so some people are saying it shouldn't matter, some people say it does.
a) Whom do I trust?
b) Would the people who say it shouldn't matter explain why it does seem to matter substantially for some people?
I would trust the people saying that it's a regulatory issue. Good WiFi hardware will adapted their transmission power as the current situation warrants. The battery life and WIFI problem which plagues somebut not all people seems to be depends on the Access Points that people are using. And also it seems to be a firmware bug which prevents the WIFI in teh N900 from gracefully loosing contect with access points.

At work we use very highend Cisco WIFI access points. I can stay connected with e-mail, SIP and IM connections running all day with very little power drain. At home, I use a lowend Linksys access point. Last night I got bit by WIFI/batter problem. I had an almost fully charged battery. I less the E-mail app running before I went to bed. My battery was drained in only a few hours. My phone powering down woke me out of a sound sleep. (Probalby going to upgrade my Access Point to something decent running a Linux image ).