In article
hosting.com, Liam
O'Connor wrote:

anyone who calls anything icrap is just a hater.

Well, if you were in the business, and if it kept causing
you wasted service calls, you'd probably think differently.

problems when one device connects to another can be at either end or
both sides, and it's almost always a combination of both ends.

anyone who calls something icrap is not interested in actually fixing
anything. they just want to hate.

there is no evidence that ios devices have lousy radios.

I wonder if the FCC reports are available to the public?

http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/

A typical PC has a radio of receiver sensitivity of
something like -85dBm, and a radio transmit power of
something like 50mW and antenna gain of something like 1dBi.

It would be interesting to see what specs iPads iPhones have.

here are some numbers, plus the fcc ids so you can look up all the gory
details:

http://www.revolutionwifi.net/2012/03/ipad-3-wi-fi-specifications.html
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4866269

your isp installs wall mount access points?
usually they just give you a box and it sits on a table somewhere.

He's a local WISP.

For a new customer, he comes to the house, and then sites
his antenna on your roof or on a mast in the back yard so that
it points to his access point, which can be 20 miles away.

oh, the entire thing is wireless. that's different.

i was thinking of a normal router that connects to dsl/fios/cable.