Hardware hack for Wifi?


I have this Antenna Problems not with my GHZ Pandora.

When you can little German,see here my Pandora Hardware Wlan Mod :) http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?p=188758#p188758

When you not can German,tells the Pictures it to you.

Most i get not much more Speed,its up to 600KB but i have a much more Range @ Home with my Wlan then :)
 
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This is how I modded my Pandora to hide the USB wifi dongle inside the Pandora :) :

  1. Get rid of the casing of the Wifi Stick
  2. Solder the corresponding pins of the Wifi stick to the pins of the pandora USB from the inside
  3. Gently jam the wifi stick into the opening next to the microphone.
  4. Reassemble the pandora case.
  5. Enable USB HOST and tada you now have external USB Wifi installed internally :)
Warning:  From now on your usb won't be able read any external stuff plugged into it.  I don't know why yet!  Still figuring this out :)  But Wifi works like a charm :)

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$650 for something that cant even get wifi right?
Well yes and no. There's an unfortunate number of people that have wifi issues, but there are even more people that don't have any problems.If your benchmark is simply that there are problems at all then I would point out that neither Sony nor Nintendo are immune to this: all companies with devices of any complexity will have issues, expecting there to be no problems at all is ludicrous. Googling for "NDS wifi problems" yields a lot of results; I can personally attest to this as my NDS would not work on the router I had when I first got it some 8 years ago. At least OPT acknowledges that there are problems, unlike Apple which insisted their customers were holding the device wrong.

I'm still not sure what you're expecting. You come to a forum dedicated to a product and then act surprised when people like the product they're talking about.
 
$650 for something that cant even get wifi right?
Well how about you and four other people from a random forum design and manufacture a handheld computer and see if you can get everything proper out of the gate, because that's essentially what the Open Pandora project is..


I still believe the Wifi is more of a calibration issue than a hardware problem personally.
 
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$650 for something that cant even get wifi right?
I haven't had any trouble with mine, except for a software connection issue. And that's been fixed for a long time. I think some people had issues with the antenna early on.

But, for me, I've found the wireless to be fast enough in most cases. It's not like I have terabytes to fill with porn like I do with my desktop.

Er, with essays I'm writing, not porn.

Yeah, that's the ticket.
 
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