On Monday 12 May 2008, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-05-12, Grant <emailgrant@(protected):
> >> A curiosity: by itself, the Hawking USB adapter has more or
> >> less sensitivity than the simple Airport glued to my Macbook
> >> motherboard?
> >
> > I think it depends a lot on the maturity of the drivers. As I
> > said, my Netgear PCI card uses the madwifi drivers and vastly
> > outperforms the Hawking adapter.
>
> What do you mean by "outperform"? I can see how drivers can
> affect throughput. The Windows drivers for my Laptop's WiFi
> chipset (Intel Pro-something) only get about 1/4 of the
> bandwidth that the Linux drivers do.
>
> But, I don't understand how the driver can affect receiver
> sensitivity. That's purely a function of the design of the RF
> frontend.

As modified by the firmware in the device. OK, it's not the driver per
se, but it's certainly not the hardware either



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