wifi power settings?

[coldmantis]

I was wondering does the amount of power equal more distance on the prophet wifi? or just better speeds?

[kta]

My experience tells me that it just speeds up battery drain ... nothing else :-)
Could be wrong but never really seen any gain in setting it up on high performance!

[renox]

I dont agree!
I did see a real performance boost when I chose High Performance over Battery.
Before I touched the settings my WIFI connection was being disconnected every few seconds. But after I set that higher, I noticed that the WIFI connection was not being disconnected anymore and internet came more stable/faster.

[coldmantis]

I did do a test to see the difference and going from the lowest to medium actually double the download speed and going from medium to high just gave a little bit faster but I still dont know if it improves the distance or not

[LordDeath]

i started to copy a big file from my PC's shares onto my prophet via wlan:

with lowest battery usage:
batterystatus showed 2xx mA power usage and my network adapter was uploading with ~30kb/s

with highest performance level:
batterystatus showed 5xx mA power usage and my network adapter was uploading with ~300kb/s

i could not see any difference for the distance.

for browsing the web over wlan i think the lowest level is more than enough: browsing is limited by the cpu power and a fast data connection can't replace a fast cpu / can't reduce the page-rendering times.