Re: [NTLK] Power Consumtion of WaveLAN card

From: Jim Witte (jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 13:23:52 EST


   Can anyone here (PCBMan?) shed light on whether there is a theoretical
minimum power requirement for wireless cards? After all, they are
generating a radio signal of some strengh, but I don't know enough about
radio technology to know if that puts an appreciable floor on power
consumption.

Jim

>> it jumps to about 250mA or more when the card is transfering data.
> This is really disappointing. I would state that the designer of this
> card
> hasn't kept in mind

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