Comment Re:USB 802.11 dongles -- are any Linux friendly? (Score 1) 254
Perhaps what he meant was the connection worked better than the windows setup?
Personal experience: I have a desktop with a pcmcia bridge for a wireless pcmcia card. With Windows, I was constantly having that stupid balloon popup tell me that my connection was available/unavaliable. Then, when the connection was available, transfer rates were "slow"...around 100 kbps. On the other hand, on the same machine in the same location connecting to the same server only minutes later, my Linux installation had no problem connecting to the access point (monitored with kwifimanager) and I had transfer rates upwards of 200 kbps. So take it for what it's worth...Linux works dang well for me and is "probably better."
Personal experience: I have a desktop with a pcmcia bridge for a wireless pcmcia card. With Windows, I was constantly having that stupid balloon popup tell me that my connection was available/unavaliable. Then, when the connection was available, transfer rates were "slow"...around 100 kbps. On the other hand, on the same machine in the same location connecting to the same server only minutes later, my Linux installation had no problem connecting to the access point (monitored with kwifimanager) and I had transfer rates upwards of 200 kbps. So take it for what it's worth...Linux works dang well for me and is "probably better."
