Subject: Re: IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA cards allowing power control

From: Dirk Husemann <[email-masked]>
Date: 24 Jan 2000 14:00:05 +0100

>>>>> "PG" == Piyush Gupta <[email-masked]> writes:

    PG> Hi,
    PG>   I'm looking for IEEE 802.11 compliant PCMCIA cards
    PG> which allow control over the power level at which
    PG> the signals are transmitted. My current understanding is
    PG> that WaveLan and other similar cards do not allow this.

Supposedly the Aironet 4800 PC cards will let you do this (within bounds:
you can specify three settting 50/100/150)

        Dirk

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