The iMac has better reception because all wireless capable Apple's have a built-in antenna. This is far superior to the tiny antennas in PCMCIA cards (as Jack MDS has already pinted out). In fact the iMac antenna is probably better than the USB ones as well.
Also it can depend the material is...
This is actually a known defect for all HP Laserjet 5L/6L/1000/1100 printers where the paper gets pulled in from the top. That's why they redesigned the new Laserjet 1000 and 1200 to pull the paper in from the bottom and come out on top.
I have 20 6L's at my office and half of them have...
Yes the Linksys router, like all default DHCP servers will first attempt to assign the same IP you had to the same MAC address. Of course this depends on the number of clients and IP addresses you have available. But for most home installations you will get the same IP everytime.
Are you using WEP? On some cards, turning on WEP will kill your throughput. And like you said, your numbers are *effective* throughput, which is always a lot lower than theoretical bandwidth.
I'm using a Cisco Aironet 350 card and I use the Cisco ACU (version 4.15) to manage the card/connections/WEP keys. I used to use the wireless management feature built into WinXP but my connection would drop every few minutes for a few seconds. It hasn't happened since I switched back to the...
You don't actually need to input all four keys since it only uses one key at a time. Inputting 4 keys just let you switch between them without having to re-type long hexidecimal strings (which is very prone to typos).
Just select a key on the Linksys (i.e. key #2) and type that key into your...
Check out this article at Tom's Hardware. It basically says that for the home user it doens't really matter, but if you have cash to burn or you want a perfect environment for a corporate IT dept., then use 3Com's 3c905c-tx or if you really have too much money the 3cr990-tx-97. That this info...
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