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nilch

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« on: February 24, 2005, 05:04:33 pm »
I see that the Socket Low Power Wireless CF Card seems to be out of production and out of stock everywhere (incl Amazon).

Missed one ebay bid and I have been since biting my fingers off for missing it.
Is there any other low power wireless cards (CF) that anyone is aware of - and if yes, any good deals on it ?

My recently bought Ambicom works very well, but does consume power like a hog.
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2005, 09:34:29 am »
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I see that the Socket Low Power Wireless CF Card seems to be out of production and out of stock everywhere (incl Amazon).

Missed one ebay bid and I have been since biting my fingers off for missing it.
Is there any other low power wireless cards (CF) that anyone is aware of - and if yes, any good deals on it ?

My recently bought Ambicom works very well, but does consume power like a hog.
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Not sure if they do this particular one, but they are quite clueful and might be able to help, they were very good when I was trying out PCMCIA memory cards and had one on eval.

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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2005, 10:46:39 am »
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Is there any other low power wireless cards (CF) that anyone is aware of - and if yes, any good deals on it?
Don't get too caught up on the "low power" desgnation on the Socket cards.  My recollection (though this is from memory, someone correct me please) is that the low-power feature requires driver support and the Z didn't have a supporting driver.

Now this may have changed with the current drivers; not my area of expertise.
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2005, 10:12:56 am »
You can get Symbol CF card (identical to Socket) off ebay for about $30 these days.
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2005, 04:19:24 pm »
agreed, there's quite a few socket or symbol cards; a lot of people don't list things properly, so you need to try a mix of "socket wlan", "symbol wireless" and variations to be sure to find what you're looking for. I also missed a Senao one, which is a pain.

still hard to work out what's the best, for both range, for WPA compatibility (seems to me only socket/symbol support it), and battery life. If anyone has done a compatibility, feature and power-consumption comparison table, I'd love to know! I did find one but it's more for PC/Linux, but useful nonetheless:

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison

The discussion of the
uber card is quite interesting.

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« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2005, 07:28:07 am »
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still hard to work out what's the best, for both range, for WPA compatibility (seems to me only socket/symbol support it)

Actualy symbol/socket linux driver doesn't support WPA. Currently only hostap drivers are available for Zaurus, which support WPA.
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2005, 10:04:10 am »
Thanks Maslovsky for your suggestion. I did indeed jump in and bid for a Symbol Networker card from ebay and won it. It should be on its way.

Currently my Netgear card lasts a dismal 10 mins bfore my C750 is out of battery power. Hope the Symbol improves the performance.
I can live without the WPA support for now
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« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2005, 09:25:00 am »
A big thanks to Maslovsky for your suggesting the Symbol Wificards.

I started using the new card and WOW! what a difference in battery consumption.

The range is still the same - i.e. good - I haven't benchmarked by feet or meters, but the power consumption is extremely good.

Again by my benchmarks - the earlier Ambicom card that I have would just last one 'large soup' lunch at byrant park with the public wifi that they have out there and by the time I was fininshed so was the battery in my C750 (fully charged to begin with).

Now with the Symbol Spectrum Networker card, I have gone thru a soup and sandwich, or even one of those large tasty (but messy) Moeshe's Falafel and a coke and still have enough battery power to do some surfing and email checking (my company has blocked external emails) and then close down (nearly 30 mins spent at Byrant park all in all) otherwise I would get marked at office too long lunches.  

Thats a big difference.
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« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2005, 12:33:31 pm »
Nilch, the wifi card that you have is this one: New Symbol Compact Flash CF WiFi Wireless Card 802.11b ???
I've found it in ebay. It's really cheap. If it works ok with cacko1.22 i'll buy two of them.

And they ship Worldwide!!! Amazing.
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« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2005, 12:41:42 pm »
You havent given any link, but the one I have is the Spectrum 24 Wireless NETWORKER (802.11b | 11 mpbs) card. It says "For Pocket PC PDA's" on it, but that doesnt matter.

I think the model is called N410
It is This Card

It does work out-of-the-box as they say, on my C750 with Cacko 1.22 lite.
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2005, 03:50:24 am »
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You havent given any link, but the one I have is the Spectrum 24 Wireless NETWORKER (802.11b | 11 mpbs) card. It says "For Pocket PC PDA's" on it, but that doesnt matter.

I think the model is called N410
It is This Card

It does work out-of-the-box as they say, on my C750 with Cacko 1.22 lite.
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The one i've seen at ebay is:
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I think that is the same as yours.
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2005, 02:13:54 pm »
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The one i've seen at ebay is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5171434213&rd=1

I think that is the same as yours.
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I just bought one of these cards last week for my 5500 from that same seller, and it is indeed the famous Symbol/Socket card.  It works great!      My Z now gets better reception than my Powerbook's built-in Airport.
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« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2005, 03:37:48 am »
I finally bought that card on ebay. I wish I'll have it in 4 or 5 days here in spain.
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« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2005, 08:34:09 am »
also bought one from the seller on 03/12/05, wish I can got it soon.
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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2005, 08:18:07 am »
Got mine today. The international shipping took about 8 days. Now I'm surfing via it, great card, the power consumption is really low! Good signal!:)
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Histroy:
[SL-C3000 Cacko 1.23 Beta 1] Sold on 2006/07/27
MA701 CF WIFI + EagleTec CF Bluetooth + D-Link DCF-660W WIFI
[SL5500+Sharp-3.13 ROM+SimpleTech 64MB CF+Hagiwara 128MB SD] Lost on 18,March,04
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