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  • P6T WS why 2 wireless cards?

    From The safest gaven@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 6 20:03:02 2022
    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it came
    with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N
    BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    Any ideas?

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  • From GlowingBlueMist@21:1/5 to The safest gaven on Mon Mar 7 02:28:37 2022
    On 3/6/2022 2:03 PM, The safest gaven wrote:
    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it
    came with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N
    BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    Any ideas?
    The Buffalo supports B & G standard of WiFi while the Edimax supports
    the N standard.

    I suspect that either someone wanted to access two different wireless
    networks that operated on the frequencies supported by the two cards or
    they started out with the Buffalo and then added the Edimax when their
    wireless hub was upgraded to the N standard, for faster data transfers.

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  • From GlowingBlueMist@21:1/5 to The safest gaven on Mon Mar 7 02:40:49 2022
    On 3/7/2022 2:33 AM, The safest gaven wrote:
    I had never heard of the "N standard" so thanks for letting me know that
    is the card I want to keep in it!
    The "N" standard will only work at speed if your wireless access point
    or router supports that standard. Good thing is usually a "N" spec card
    can automatically downgrade to run using the "G" standard if that is all
    it finds to connect with.

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  • From The safest gaven@21:1/5 to The safest gaven on Mon Mar 7 08:33:48 2022
    "GlowingBlueMist" wrote in message news:t04fnn$qm$1@dont-email.me...

    On 3/6/2022 2:03 PM, The safest gaven wrote:
    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it came with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N
    BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    Any ideas?
    The Buffalo supports B & G standard of WiFi while the Edimax supports
    the N standard.

    I suspect that either someone wanted to access two different wireless
    networks that operated on the frequencies supported by the two cards or
    they started out with the Buffalo and then added the Edimax when their
    wireless hub was upgraded to the N standard, for faster data transfers.

    --

    Thanks you. This is the bit I thought of :-


    then added the Edimax when their
    wireless hub was upgraded to the N standard, for faster data transfers.
    <<<<

    I had never heard of the "N standard" so thanks for letting me know that is
    the card I want to keep in it!

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to The safest gaven on Mon Mar 7 13:00:24 2022
    The safest gaven <s@v.info> wrote:
    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it came with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N
    BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    The Buffalo card is barely useful these days. Probably doesn't do WPA2 and
    may slow down your other devices.

    Perhaps they stuff them in boxes they sell to avoid having to dispose of it? (Or there was a missing slot backplate and they didn't have a blanking
    bracket to hand)

    Theo

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  • From The safest gaven@21:1/5 to The safest gaven on Tue Mar 8 11:55:27 2022
    "Theo" wrote in message news:q3k*6byIy@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...

    The safest gaven <s@v.info> wrote:
    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it came with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N
    BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    The Buffalo card is barely useful these days. Probably doesn't do WPA2 and
    may slow down your other devices.

    Perhaps they stuff them in boxes they sell to avoid having to dispose of it? (Or there was a missing slot backplate and they didn't have a blanking
    bracket to hand)

    Theo

    --

    Correct Theo the card could instantly see my router and had a full strength signal but would not give me any internet.

    The other card couldn't even pick up my router at all.

    So I used an old Netgear wga v2 and was connected in seconds!

    lol

    Thanks folks!

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  • From David@21:1/5 to The safest gaven on Tue Mar 8 12:29:27 2022
    On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:03:02 +0000, The safest gaven wrote:

    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it
    came with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    Any ideas?

    One obvious use would be as a wireless repeater.

    One card to talk to the router, the other to talk to a client which is out
    of range of the router.

    Could also be used as a firewall, or provide internal (fast) WiFi and an external (free but slow) WiFi.

    Cheers



    Dave R

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  • From The safest gaven@21:1/5 to The safest gaven on Wed Mar 9 22:30:58 2022
    "David" wrote in message news:j8p0h7F17t2U9@mid.individual.net...

    On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:03:02 +0000, The safest gaven wrote:

    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it
    came with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    Any ideas?

    One obvious use would be as a wireless repeater.

    One card to talk to the router, the other to talk to a client which is out
    of range of the router.

    Could also be used as a firewall, or provide internal (fast) WiFi and an external (free but slow) WiFi.

    Cheers



    Dave R

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    That Kind of clever stuff is beyond me Dave! :)

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to David on Thu Mar 10 11:16:46 2022
    On 08/03/2022 12:29, David wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:03:02 +0000, The safest gaven wrote:

    I bought a p6t workstation for 50 quid with 12g ram i7 cpu vga and it
    came with 2 wireless cards why would it have 2?

    EDIMAX IEEE 802.11 N BUFFALO AIR STATION WIRELESS G 802.11 G/B

    One has 2 ariels the other has 1

    Any ideas?

    One obvious use would be as a wireless repeater.

    One card to talk to the router, the other to talk to a client which is out
    of range of the router.

    Could also be used as a firewall, or provide internal (fast) WiFi and an external (free but slow) WiFi.

    Possible the workstation equipment was being used in a business where
    something legacy was already installed, and someone in IT did not have
    the time or understanding to integrate that with whatever new fangled
    addition they were adding for the newer wireless card.

    --
    Adrian C

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