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September 28th, 2003 21:00

Newer Truemobile 1180/1300 compatible drivers

Was snooping around HP's site and found a newer driver (3.30.15.0) than Dell's latest offering (3.20.23.0).  Installs rather silently.  They also have an updated utility, albeit in a separate download.  If anyone is interested, check it: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqnk/us/locate/64_5598.html

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September 29th, 2003 00:00

Does it give the 1180 WPA support?

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September 29th, 2003 04:00



@johnallg wrote:
Does it give the 1180 WPA support?


According to the release notes, it should: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqnk/us/download/19094.html  For that matter, the latest Dell driver should have done that.  I have no way of testing as my AP does not (and likely never will) have WPA support (curse Linksys!).

Message Edited by Gen-An on 09-29-2003 01:17 AM

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September 29th, 2003 11:00

Hey,

Thanks for the link. I installed them and immeadiately jumped in signal strength. I used to hover around -48 to -54 db. With these drivers I'm sitting around -25 to -28.

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September 29th, 2003 13:00

wow- up to a 28 db increase. Since db is a log3 scale that means you had a 512x increase in signal

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September 29th, 2003 17:00



@raston wrote:

Hey,

Thanks for the link. I installed them and immeadiately jumped in signal strength. I used to hover around -48 to -54 db. With these drivers I'm sitting around -25 to -28.




What AP are you using may I ask?  I hover around the -50dBm signal strength myself...

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September 29th, 2003 18:00

I am using a 3Com® OfficeConnect® Wireless 11g Cable/DSL Gateway. However I'm afraid I was a little quick on the draw with my earlier post.I stopped by my place at lunch and fired up my I8500, and the signal was back to the way I usually was. I don't know why It read so high this morning. But I'll be tryng to figure it out, to see if I can make it work like that all the time.

Hope I haven't sent you guy off on a wild goose chase trying to find something that may have been a one-time fluke.

Anyway, the 3com router works well. I have been extremely pleased with it.

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September 29th, 2003 21:00

Hey,

I'm back on again (6:00 p.m.) and I'm back hovering around -25 to -26 db. Go figure.

If anybody with in-depth knowledge in this stuff has some insight I'd love to hear it.

September 29th, 2003 22:00

Thanks for the find. Installed it on my 8200 and so far so good... (knock on wood) Have had a lot of problems with the 1300 card and my linksys befw11s4, just like everybody else.

I really liked the new options in the advanced setting on the card, and the new tabs in the Utillity. Good to be able to set the lappy up as an AP instead of using adhoc if need be...  Has anybody tried the new utillity upgrade? What are the differences?

 

 

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September 30th, 2003 03:00

Wild guess department - are you connecting to two different routers?  Like a neighbors?

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September 30th, 2003 10:00

Nope, just mine. In fact I can see a neighbors router and access it if I choose to, but that's not what's happening.

Just as an aside, I have no idea which neighbor has the router but its amazing that they don't have any security set up. It's obvious that they did some config'ing of the router since its called 'PRTSVR'. That's definately not a factory default kind of name.

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September 30th, 2003 18:00

You could roam with your notebook to find the signal and if its a she you just might get a dinner out of it! 

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October 1st, 2003 10:00

I ran your idea by my wife, but she didn't seem to supportive! 

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October 1st, 2003 19:00

Doh!! 

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November 23rd, 2003 00:00

I'd have to agree with you.  I've made no other changes to my setup.  Just installed the newer driver and my signal strength increased similarily to yours.  Interesting change!

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