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Originally posted by gorby
Comparing to the Linksys card the battery drain with the Simbol card is much much less. You will be very suprprised. I don't have any other cards to compare to but I am very happy with this one and highly recommend it; especially cause it costs about 1/3 of the Socket card and they seem to be pretty identical.
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Received the Symbol card yesterday and I'm sure it'll last much longer than WCF12. It also worked flawlessly with 128bit WEP.
First, on the back of the card it says something like "Max. 100mW". I remember WCF12 is listed with 280mA peak. So there is a lot of difference in current (power) draw.
Also the Symbol is much cooler than Linksys card- a sign of less power consumption.
It just occurs to me that Linksys likely realizes that WCF12 is not competitive is not too big a market (WiFi CF card). Their intention is likely to let this product dies naturally and spend as littel efforts in supporting it as possible. It makes good short-term business sense but a bad one for customer loyalty. I for one no longer hold high regard for Linksys products.
Ehien