802.11a, b and g on Windows CE
22 March 2010

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HPC:Factor is an online community of users who share a common interest in the legendary, yet legacy Microsoft Handheld PC platform and in its underlying operating system Microsoft Windows CE.

 

Handheld PC News

Summit SCD-CF22AG Wireless Card
Windows CE devices have been limited in their wireless capabilities, often relegated to the older and much slower 802.11b standard. Coupled with the difficult to overcome security issues associated with Windows CE 4.0 and lower, wireless on the H/PC is often painful and a trade off of getting any connection... Continue Reading »
Published 5 days ago | Post Type: Review item | 0 comments | Author: C:Amie
Happy Birthday HPC:Factor
On this day way back in 2003 the teams of the sites of Simply|HPC and ce320 came together and for the first time HPC:Factor hit your screens offering a little slice of Windows CE for your day.

Back in 2003 when we started Windows CE .net version 4.0 was still a... Continue Reading »
Published 2 weeks ago | Post Type: Community item | 4 comments | Author: C:Amie
Fundraising Update
It has been a little over two weeks since I first mentioned to the community that we would need some help in generating the funding necessary to buy a new server for HPC:Factor.

In that time I have been astonished and humbled by the response from the community, both for the... Continue Reading »
Published 4 weeks ago | Post Type: Community item | 0 comments | Author: C:Amie
Flashback: Vadem Clio C-1050
It has been some time since we last published a review here on HPC:Factor, so it is exciting to see that our first review for 2010 is a flashback review, where the author takes a perspective on a legacy device through modern eyes.

The topic of discussion for this review is... Continue Reading »
Published 4 weeks ago | Post Type: Review item | 0 comments | Author: C:Amie
HPC:Factor needs your help
Despite recent setbacks, the site continues to soldier on and our uptime and performance over the last few days has not been too bad. This is good news, however we have had a couple of complete lockups because of the overloaded state of the server which was already fairly overloaded... Continue Reading »
Published 1 month ago | Post Type: Community item | 1 comment | Author: C:Amie
We are back!
There seems to be a jinx which has cursed HPC:Factor that we have a year of stability and a year of total anarchy. After a year of stability in 2009, it's no surprise then that for our alternate yearly hex we've started 2010 with a fairly long outage.

Since March 2003,... Continue Reading »
Published 2 months ago | Post Type: Community item | 11 comments | Author: C:Amie