WM5 wifi prformance

[dreaddan]

HI, I have a Imate PDA-N which has a 11b card built in.

I have found the peformance of the device being rather poor.
Poor being it was quicker to boot my pc, load Mozilla than to novigate to the bbcs web page on the pc than use my pda.

Is there anything I can try to increase the peformance or check that the networking parts are working ok?


Thanks
Dan

[Brandon Miniman]

I know this seems to be our answer for most things...but try hard resetting. That'll put everything back to factory default.

[dreaddan]

None of the settings should have been changed?
I only started paying with the WIFI when I got my router.

[Jasont]

Hey dreaddan,

I had the same issue. Go under start>settings>connections>wireless Lan>power mode and move the slider to best performance. I couldn’t surf until I changed this setting.

[dreaddan]

Cheers I'll give it a try tonight
dan

[Gerard]

I've found it the same with two different CF Wi-Fi cards, a SparkLAN and a Symbol. If each is not set at maximum power, disabling 'auto' or 'power save' modes, performance is poor or non-existent. At max. power they both connect very nicely.
..
BTW; try the BBC's mobile pages. They load very quickly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm

[dreaddan]

No luck with either solution.
Power set to max and a hard reset.
IE just sits there saying it's 'locating' .
I think I need to raise a support ticket withe the manufacture.

Are there any networking tools that I can play with seing there isnt anything like ping or tracrt on wm5?

Cheers
Dan

[Pony99CA]

Originally posted by dreaddan
Are there any networking tools that I can play with seing there isnt anything like ping or tracrt on wm5?
Try vxUtil (http://www.cam.com/vxutil_pers.html), which has Ping, TraceRt and more. Even better, it's free for personal use.

I don't know whether it works with WM 5 or not, but I don't see why it wouldn't.

Steve