From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Sat Aug 13 2005 - 00:23:52 PDT
On Aug 12, 2005, at 9:40 PM, John Skinner wrote:
<snip>
> I just researched there some more and found out the people have
> posted that they were able to upgrade their Bronze cards to 128bit
> WEP, but that it doesn't upgrade the speed to 11 Mbps. (see post here
> http://www.netstumbler.org/showpost.php?p=83012&postcount=446
>
> From what I know now, the differences between the Bronze Silver and
> Gold cards are:
>
> Bronze = no encryption, 2Mbps speed
> Silver = 64bit encryption, 11Mbps speed
> Gold = 128bit encryption, 11Mbps speed
>
>
> So the true answer is:
>
> No. You can not upgrade a Bronze card to a Gold card because of a
> hardware limitation.
> But, a bronze card can be upgraded to support 128bit WEP encryption.
Since we were actually talking about the Bronze turbo, I believe that
does in fact do speeds faster then 2m bits per second.
Thanks for the links and the info. I think we will know more about
this, when someone with a Bronze turbo tries it!
Marty
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