paulm64

Hi,
I have an iPaq 3650 with PPC2002, and CF Expansion sleeve. I upgraded the battery to a Hyperdrive 2.0. I have an AmbiCom 802.11B wifi card and a 512MB CF card. I put wireless applications on main memory and then use the 512mb card for non wireless applications. I use my iPaq for email, listening to internet radio, and watching TV that is being streamed from my desktop computer. I also use it for ebooks, and audio books, and some games. These go onto the cf memory card. This works fine but I wanted to have wifi and memory at the same time. So I wouldn't have to switch cards and so I could free up the main memory. So I bought a Sandisk wifi+128MB combo card. Here's the problem. For some reason, the combo card is slow and jerkey. When I stream video it is very jerky and pauses alot. But it's just fine when I use the Ambicom card. Also, videos copied to the Sandisk 128mb memory also play jerky. But the same video plays fine off of just a regular cf memory cards. Is there some reason why my combo card is slower than my seperate wifi, memory cards? And is there any thing I can do to make the Sandisk Wifi+128MB Memory card work better?

P.S. I love the nice loud speaker on my old ipaq. I hate to use headphones. I like to use my iPaq as a little radio I can take from room to room.
I tried a Toshiba e740 but the speaker sucked. Plus it was a little too unstable. So I sold it and went back to my trusty ol' iPaq. Do the newer iPaqs have as good a speaker as the original ipaq?

Paul.

deach01

At a guess, I would say that the SanDisk combo card drivers are junk.

I had a sandisk sd wifi/memory combo card. It was terrible, slow, random hangs, and sandisk tech support denied any problems, even though many people reported them in forums.

Eventualy, sandisk withdrew them from the market and offered a straight memory card in exchange (nice deal... not!)

I think its just too much for the i/o buss and the processor in a pda to handle switching functions in a combo card fast enough to be useful.

paulm64

Well, it doesn't matter now. The Wifi portion of the card just stopped working. All attempts to get it going have failed. I've hard reseted, re-installed, nothing. It's just dead now. Weird thing, though, the memory part still works. Anyone know how to revive the wifi portion of this card?