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2007-01-30
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Originally Posted by bobpaul
Well I am an expert having been involved with the IEEE 802.11 working group that first develop wireless technology. Not the most engineering specific response (don't seem to recall the word "craptastic" in the spec) but for the most part fairly accurate. Besides I tend to throw out too much dB, dBi, and antenna fresnel zones equations so you're probably better off with his answer
Sorry, but I'm a stickler for details and this is an area of semi-expertise.The problem is the antenna. There's not really anything about a wireless card that can be done to make it prefer reception or sending, but cards tend to have more craptastic antennas that routers.
This means that, especially a USB stick style card, will be "quieter". This isn't a big deal, because the router has better antennas. Better antennas mean it can "hear" the "quite" signals better, and it can also "shout" a lot louder so the crappy antennas in the USB stick can hear it.
The Nokia most definitely has as crappy an antenna as any USB stick. A PCI card with a removable antenna would be a much better mate than a USB stick.
Power output might play an effect here as well, as a USB stick probably doesn't send as much signal to the antenna, but the whole concept remains the same.
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2007-01-30
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yeah, my electromagnetics professor wouldn'thave approved
(Really: I'm only joking. Your contribution was, in fact, quite revealing. I'm a weird one, me; just ask Texrat