Re: Adventages over Windows WZC?

Sqwertz <swertz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:43:59 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:22:37 -0600, Sqwertz <swertz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Are there any performance advantages to using the vendor-supplied
utilities to configure/maintain your wireless adaptor when
compared to using the Windows-XP built-in Wireless Zero utility?

No difference. The client connection manager only provide a user
hostile, I mean user friendly, method of configuring the wireless
device. The actual performance is mostly in the hardware.

That's kinda what I figured, I just wasn't sure. I've just used
WZC on the handful of clients I've set up. Most of my setups are
simple bare-bones 802.11g adapters/router sand I just wanted to
be sure I wasn't missing out on any of the extensions.

Well, there are some "extensions" in the user client managers that are
lacking in the stock XP WZC. The most complex of the bunch is Intel
Proset:
<http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/wireless/proset/proset_software.htm>
which offers diagnostics, roaming persistance control, site survey,
Cisco Extensions, logging, QoS, and a mess of other stuff that I
actually use. It's what WZC should have been. Of course, it only
works with Intel wireless cards. Some of the manufacturers client
managers also do a credible job of adding useful features. However,
none of these features will offer anything in the way of a performance
(range or speed) improvement.

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