Thread: Very bad browsing experience after firmware update!!!
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-07-16 , 17:40
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#72
Originally Posted by Rider View Post
But then I noticed my wlan power on the N800 was just 10mW. I set it to 100mW and removed the sleep-timeout back to the default and everything worked fine again despite the rather weak wifi signal.

Result: The sleep timeout may help in certain situations, but first make sure that your wifi power is 100mW.
There is a comment in bugzilla which provides some background to the transmit power setting and suggests 100mW should be the default unless legislation in your country prohibits it. The higher transmission power setting apparently has negligible effect on battery lifetime, which is good.