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5x00 General discussions / Opinions On Various Cf Wifi Cards For Zaurus 5500

« on: May 30, 2005, 06:38:19 pm »

So if the smc card is in your opinion the 2nd best card, then what would you say is the best?

I have a ambicom wifi card(WL1100-CF) which works, but seems awfully flaky.

NetNut

I'm using the SMC <a href="http://www.factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=SM2642">2642w</a>, and love it.  It pretty much the 2nd best card IMHO because it's power consumption is reasonable, combined with its price.  The reason the socket is sow expensive, is that it's an exteremly low power card (you can google to compare the two).

It's not really worth the G cards on the Z, because the various filesystems we have (SD, CF, even internal) really can't handle jamming that much data on at the speeds of 802.11g.  I tried a pcmcia sleeve, combined with an orinoco card, and found that the Z is the slowdown, not the network.

As for the price, it's a touch high, at least for North America.  I don't know what they go for down in Australia though.  Also, if you're going wireless, you might want to check ou the battery for the 5600.  With a knife and some duct tape, you can use the larger battery (just no cover on the back of your zaurus).  I'm doing that, and using a usb sync cable instead of my cradles.
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