Re: [NTLK] wifi woes continued

From: Martin Joseph <NT_at_stillnewt.org>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 20:12:02 EDT

On Oct 31, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Oliver Leaman wrote:

> "please tell me: is your Wifi Card Setup on ad-hoc or
> infrastructure? Is your Inet Setup on DHCP or Manual? And, if
> manual, what are your settings?"
> It is infrastructure, and DHCP, and the card is the Lucent Silver.
>
> When it connnects it works fine, but if the Newton is less likely
> to connect as compared with other more modern machines this would
> be useful for me to know, since I will not rely on it in future
> when travelling.

It has been quite reliable with regards to the connection in my
experience, but you need to understand it's limits with regards to
public WIFI. ie No SSl, so no special authentication pages, limited
redirection, etc.

Marty

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