From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [72.254.52.233] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.84.143.49]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 392602 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:04:37 -0400 Message-ID: <451BE477.10602@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:04:23 -0700 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Adding internal Wi-Fi to non-Wi-Fi-ready notebooks References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/28/06 07:50 am, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote : > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:54:03 -0700, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > >> Stan, you haven't noticed any appreciable voltage drop using a hub on >> the T23? I might expect this with the T20 and 21, at least, due to their >> age (and yes, I do see low voltage issues with machines of that vintage >> - just swapped out a desktop which simply stopped charging an iPod). >> Just curious. >> > > I get a message about a surge when connecting the Asus. While I have a mini-usb hub I > don't have that many USB devices, just a mouse, the ASUS, the camera, a USB external drive > and a Bluetooth dongle. Is that not too many? I seldom have more than 2 connected, and the > drive usually by itself. My hub has an optional powersupply which I don't usually carry. > > I almost never us the laptop with USB when not connected via a plug. The battery just > drains within an hour.... > > That's a fair amount of devices. I'm impressed that the T23 is able to handle the voltage output. I haven't tried a USB hub on a T20, but have had experience with power-hungry devices demanding more than the T20 could feed (thus requiring the use of a powered hub). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------