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The title of this post comes from the movie "Forrest Gump". Forrest made this comment while he was on his "big run" and stepped into a piece of shit. The guy -to whom Forrest said this essential truth- made a fortune by selling stickers with this phrase. However this came for a quite different reason to my mind. I tried to set up a PC (powered by WinXP SP2 and a basic Linksys PCI Wi-Fi card) to connect to my Wi-Fi router, but it didn't want the truth. The strange thing was that it worked while the PC was in line of sight with the router, but failed to connect from a 10m distance with no obstacles in between them. Previously I had a notebook working from the same distance with no problem.

I used the WinXP builtin Wi-Fi connection handler in the past with the notebook's PCMCIA card and it worked. It was not incredibly fast, but it worked very stable. However the PC with the PCI Wi-Fi card did not want to manage the less than 10m distance. It turned out that the problem was with WinXP's Wi-Fi connector software. I enabled the Linksys software, set up the connection and everything works just fine. Well ... this is the reason for people going over to the Mac. :->