Pushing it to hard?

It has happened, I seem to have found a way to make my Cf-19 fail!!
I had been playing with my wifi-card inside my mk5 to see how far I could push it. And I can push it far. But setting the transmit power to the highest level in the settings of the intel centrino advanced N-6205 card, connecting it to a ruckus top-of-the-line access point and testing it on speedtest.net to see what speeds my glass fibre can get, it got wonky. It would stop in the middle of the test, it would hang, I couldn't find any wifi networks anymore (and there are 27 detectable networks here, it's busy, that's why I have the ruckus access points). with the power set back to normal, I can get 47 down and 67 up on a 50/50Mbps fibre. And my Apple extreme or fritz.box wouldnt go over 40mbps.
Anyway, setting transmitpower on the centrino card to maximum and pushing it seems to be the way to get it to shut down!

Anybody seen this before?

 

Hi, not seen it before but out of curiosity just looked at the N-6205 in my new-to-me Mk.5 and transmit is already set to "5. Highest." I haven't found anything that contradicts the zero hours in the bios so guessing 5 may be default?

Trying to fine-tune the touchpad settings to something I can live with. It came with W7 Pro x64 and 4GB memory, I'll add another 4.
GPS on the F5521gw WWAN card finds 9 sats whether it's connected to the network or not as I expected it would.

I plan to use this machine as an OpenCPN chart plotter with AIS and broadband radar plugins, so far it looks good.
To the other sailors here... it's a backup to paper charts, two proper plotters and proper radar :thumbsup: (edit: oh yes, forgot the Navionics app on my tablet and phone) but I do like a 10" screen I can move around.

What I want now is some sunshine to check out the circulumin/transflective screen - what we're getting here in Northwest UK is gale after gale with the occasional storm.
Wintering afloat up river, hoping there'll still be a navigable channel come Spring.

 

Hey Mac,

How's the GPS on the F5521GW working? I've used it before in autostreet and navigator from mapfactor, but I'm much more used to TomTom & like their features better. Also it wasn't as stable as I would like it to be, so I started using an external USB Ublox GPS puck. Worked better, certainly when I was using it in the car for 2-3 hours.

I'll do some more testing of the 6205 card, see how it goes now, if it has changed.

 

Hi Alec,
haven't been able to do much, busy at work mostly. When I tried the GPS it was just with gpsinfo but it was inside the cabin with 6mm. of steel overhead and it found 9 sats and a good fix. Didn't time ttff or anything, was only playing really.
Soon as I have more time I'll get into it.
Did see the sun briefly about 10 minutes ago, very happy with screen readability at all angles.
Should work great for my purposes I think.

Meant to thank you in my last post for all the trouble you went to with your review of the Mk.5.
Helped me enormously and a great resource for others too I'm sure.

Windows is pestering me to restart for updates so...