Tom's Hardware Reviews the Linksys WCF54G

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-177-ProdID-WCF54G.php' target='_blank'>http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Revie...odID-WCF54G.php</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Linksys' WCF54G Wireless-G Compact Flash Card is the first 802.11g card in Compact Flash format. Since PocketPCs are hardly the fastest computing devices around, you might ask 'why bother?'. The answer is that 11g for PocketPC's isn't so much a matter of faster network access for the handheld devices themselves, but more a matter of not slowing things down for speedier WLAN users, due to the 11b protection mechanism built into 802.11g."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/parekh-20041209-TomsWCF54g.jpg" /><br /><br />Interestingly, Tom's finds that you <i>do</i> get a speed boost with an iPAQ 2215. Obviously, the speed of a Pocket PC and the CF interface are going to be limitations, but if you've got a g network that you're trying to optimize, this product may be right for you.

[fishfuzz]

This card doesn't have drivers (at this time) for a laptop. His reference to a Dell was for a seperate cardbus PCMCIA card, not the CF.

[Menneisyys]

The throughput isn't bad. I've also measured the FTP downlink speed of the 2210 (and the Pocket Loox 720) with a plain 802.11b card (Asus) in http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35119 and got results of about 260 kbytes/s.

Of course, FTP clients (even the fastest ones like the vxFtp used in the test) may have overheads over Chariot's Throughput.scr script, so the results aren't directly comparable.

If real-world programs like vxFtp are able to attain 500-600 kbytes/s with the 802.11g card (I don't think any current PDA can achieve more than 1 Mbyte/s speed when copying data from CF to main memory; I've measured, using a 40* CF, 900 kbytes/s for the 2210 and 600 kbytes/s for the PL720), then this card may be worth buying.

[Janak Parekh]

This card doesn't have drivers (at this time) for a laptop. His reference to a Dell was for a seperate cardbus PCMCIA card, not the CF.
Thanks for the clarification -- totally missed that. I've updated my post. :)

--janak

[rmasinag]

My d-link died about a year ago, this might a good excuse to get my HP2210
back to surfing again.. :)

wow! dilemma for christmas.. what should I get fot being a good student this semster.. in addition to the BT headphones?

Hmmmnn....BT keyboard, this G card?? :? wishful thinking

slightly OT question:
To you guys who took the BT headphone plunge? If manufaturers come out with BT 1.2 CF or SD, would that work better with the Ipaq BT headphones than BT 1.1? pending HP pulls the drivers out of their oass.