PDA and tablet PCs in Wi-Fi

[BER_vs_SNR]

Has anyone seen any objective reviews anywhere discussing battery lifetime impact on common portable devices like PDA's or tablet PC's when used in a Wi-Fi setting? I am looking for baseline behavior as well as ideally in 802.11g versus 802.11b impact on battery life (meaning information that is beyond vendors' hype). Thanks.

[Aiakos]

I've got an ipaq 3675 with a brand new battery and an orinoco gold, silver, dlink 650+, linksys wpc11 and wpc54g. Tell me what cards you want me to test with and I'll do it in the next couple of days.

[BER_vs_SNR]

Oh, this is very kind of you. Thank you. I really appreciate it.

If it is not too much I would be interested in battery lifetime numbers with real-life regular activity on the 2 Linksys cards you mentioned WPC11 and WPC54G. This way we can compare.

Hearing back from you in as fast as a few days, is truly more than I could dare ask.

Many thanks again!

[Aiakos]

No problem:D

[Aiakos]

I cant find the ppc drivers for the wpc11 or wpc54g. I'll keep looking but it might take me a little longer.

[jsicuran]

Just got the Ambicom 802.11b compat flash type I WL1100C-CF card to work in an old hp jornada 430se. This was the cheapest and probably the most compatible card found. It cost $69.00 but with a 20 buck rebate only 49. The other cards I was considering was the Pretec and the Netgear. A lot of folks on Amazon.com gave negative feed back on the Netgear MA701. So, luckily my first choice, Ambicom worked. I can access the internet and use vxutils as mentioned in a previous post. The software that comes with he Ambicom has a basic AP finder and basic SNR tools.

Now if I can find a win ce 2.11 sniffer, spectrum analyzer(dreaming) and that soft phone I will be rocking. If Sjphone comes out with something for SH3 processor soon then I may have my little test wifi phone after all.:D

Oh yes it seems that the battery does go much faster with the cf wifi card running.

Regards