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Who measured these receiving sensitivity? from a FCC certified lab or by the
mfg?  I don't know of any receiving sensitivity data on FCC database.

I doubt D-Link 650(-84) beats Orinocol (-82).

Colgate




"Gary Funck" <gary@intrepid.com> wrote in message
news:G8hB8.10545$JZ6.222335@dfw-read.news.verio.net...
>
> "AJ" <ajpk3@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3cd566e4.10260543@news.pa.comcast.giganews.com...
> >
> >
> > >This really make a lot sense,  we have seen some AP or PCMCIA card
rated
> at
> > >50 mW or above (only the cards with first generation Intersil chip
limit
> > >power to around 30mW) but the receiving sensitivity is unknown.  While
> some
> > >card with low power output gets better range such as Orinocol.
> > >There should be a way to identify the absolute performance of a card
> based
> > >on both TX and RX.  This way we users could find out who is the real
> > >performer.
> >
> > This page tells the rest of the story:
> >
> > http://freenetworks.org/moin/index.cgi/ReceiveSensitivity
>
> Sorting that (very informative) list by 11Mbs sensitivity, with lowest
(most
> negative) being better:
>
>       Card 11 Mbps
>       Musenki (65mW output) (Has Anyone Seen this?) -87
>       Cisco 350 Series (100mW output) -85
>       smartBridges airNIC (USB, SMA connector, 32mW output) -84
>       Enterasys / Cabletron (35mW) -84
>       Netgear MA101 (USB 30mW) -84
>       DLink DWL-650 -84
>       Prism II Datasheet -84
>       Proxim RangeLAN-DS -83
>       Senao (100mW no EXT antenna) -83
>       Cisco 340 Series -83
>       Zcomax XI-300 -83
>       Tellus AP -83
>       Lucent Orinoco / Compaq WL110 (32mW) -82
>       Intel 2011 -81
>       Breezecom PC-DS.11 -80
>       DLink DCF 650W/K (Compact Flash) -80
>       Linksys WPC11 (20mW-100mW) -76
>       Global Sun GL2411-02 (20mW-100mW) -76
>       Teletronics 11mbps outdoor card -76
>       SyncbyAir? -76
>       Addtron AWP-100 -76
>
>
> That Musenki looks pretty darn good.  By the way, in my own ad hoc
testing,
> I did find that the Netgear PCMCIA card outperforned the Orinoco Gold
> (card), and the USR card (not ranked) above.
>
>