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richms:
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--- Quote from: richms on July 17, 2006, 06:46:56 am ---The antenna you have made wont work very well at all.
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Boy you got that right. I pretty much figured I'd be plugging in to the copper until I could come up with something else. Unfortunately my PCI slots are at the very top of the cab and are blocked by the top rib/skin of the cab. I could possibly go USB, but I wouldn't want it to be a permanent thing. I've only got 2 USB ports to play with. I guess I could put in a small hub. Do you have a particular wireless lan USB brand/model you'd recommend?
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Read here - http://www.motherboardpoint.com/t38829-w200-multiport-modification.html - will tell you how to use the mulitbay connector as USB for any old wireless stick to free up the 2 real ports.
For an antenna try just having a 1.25 inch piece of straight wire from the pad. Orient it vertically since thats how accesspoints are. That should be better then a random length of wire.
You could try getting some 50 ohm coax (think BNC networking cable) and soldering that to the antenna point on the wireless module board, taking it to the top of the case and having 1.25 inches of the centre core exposed (can have the insulation on it still, just no shield) - this will get it up above the noisy screen etc, RG58 cable is really lossy at 2.4Ghz so it may end up just as bad, but doesnt hurt to try if you have some old cables around the place.
Ive had good luck with zyxel branded USB sticks, keep in mind there are only a few chips for it, and most manufacturers just follow the referecnce design from atheros or whoever make the chip. Just avoid ones that require you to install megs and megs of crap just to get it to work (cough linksys cough) because you just have to remove all that crap again anyway
edit - messed up the quoting
theCoder:
The new Ipac works great. Thanks Andy for a quick resolution. I made the mistake of allowing my daughter play it while I was in the middle of tuning the Mame games. I can't get 10 minutes on it now. It's a pain, but it makes me proud.
richms - Thanks for the info. I'll try the coax with 1.25" lead trick. If that doesn't work I'm very interested in the USB hack you referenced. Thanks.
MameMaster!:
absolutely fantastic work!
.....really sweet set up you've got there!!!
theCoder:
--- Quote from: MameMaster™! on July 21, 2006, 04:59:00 pm ---absolutely fantastic work!
.....really sweet set up you've got there!!!
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Thanks. We've got a party coming up and I know it is going to get a lot of use. I'm a little worried about how to handle the "could you make me one?" requests that are sure to come.
And then there are the "wow, you could make these and sell them". Yea, sure, if I didn't mind working for $1.25 per hour. I think I'd go broke. I'll keep my day job.
Yesterday I did some tuning of the computer to reduce the appearance of Windows and to speed things up. The write-up at: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53467.0 really got me going.
With no optimization it took 71 seconds, from power on to menu ready. After doing most of recommendation in the thread, it is down to 52 seconds, plus only a few glimmers of windows during the boot. I'd like to get it down to 30 seconds or less. Most of the improvement came from turning off 19 services.
theCoder:
--- Quote from: theCoder on July 21, 2006, 06:05:00 pm ---Most of the improvement came from turning off 19 services.
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I screwed something up in the course of turning off services. I'm now fighting a problem with Mala dealing with both .bat files and .lnk files (discussion on the software forum). I have no idea which services I turned off, so I'm doing some research and trial and error to get it running.
In the mean time, using Bootvis, I've carved another 10 seconds off the boot cycle. It did not work initially. It needs to call defrag, and defrag needs dcom and com+ services. I had shut these off in my quest for more optimization. Turning these back on, Bootvis worked. I'm now down to 42 seconds from power up to working menu.
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