Team 548 Einstein Statement

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The number of driver station laptops in the pits capable of 5 GHz WiFi was vanishingly small. As a robot inspector, checking for wireless networking of teams' laptops was part of my job. I saw exactly zero with 5 GHz radios in three regional competitions and a championship division.

I find that hard to believe... In my house there are 3 Dell Latitudes with 5GHZ capability:

D400- My old laptop, has a Broadcom BCM4306 chip that can do WPA2 and B/G/A.
D800- My dad's laptop, has an older version of ^ that has the same capabilities.
D630- My current laptop. Used to have an Intel 3945 B/G/A, I later upgraded it to an Intel 4965 B/G/N/A.

I've seen those models in pits before... I've seen a couple D400s used as driver stations as well. Not every D400 has a dualband chip but the BCM 4306 was very common in the D_00 units (Dell offered it as a free upgrade from the base Intel B chip).

IIRC they make USB/PCMCIA/ExpressCard adapters that are dual band that one could hide and later plug in when nobody was looking.