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Lousy Wi-Fi?
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Neil McAllister
2006-02-07 , 00:27
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Well, I continue to be disappointed with the Wi-Fi on the 770. It works fine at home -- no problems connecting with WPA2 and AES encryption, decent download speeds. I've also had success with it at a large bar/restaurant that offers free Wi-Fi to customers. But in areas where there's a lot of Wi-Fi coverage, meaning lots of different networks present at the same time, it's totally useless.
A typical case will be that it sees the network, but when you go to actually connect, the "W" icon blinks for a while and then eventually says you're connected, but Connection Manager returns a bogus IP address. DHCP fails and you can't actually use the connection for anything.
In practice, this means the 770 is useless for me as an Internet device whenever I'm at places like:
Conferences and conventions
Hotels
My work, on the 5th floor of an office building
So basically, if I have anything work-related to do -- meaning cases where it really might be nice to bring the 770 along instead of lugging around a laptop -- I now know it well enough to just leave it at home.
Am I alone in this?
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