The tremendous advantage of this deck over the rest is three Mini-PCI-Express slots.(See my uploaded pictures for relevant perspective of the following written review / instructions)
WiFIrepower.
Room for three WiFi cards or three dual WiFi/BT cards including the internal BroadCom BT means you can shoulder seven 802.11 adapters. ( Four BT + 3 WiFi Ethernet)
Install SMA connectors and connect to the adapters of your choice and you'll have an infinite number of combination's tunable to any urban and even rural environment.
You have to whitelist the BIOS to avoid the notorious ThinkPad 1802 "non compatible network adapter" block.
You have to execute LINUX or suitable operating system other than Windows to access the other two MiNi PCI slots for WiFi and BT. Lenovo and Microsoft only recognizes those slots for WiMax and the useless Intel Turbo Cache.
Linux inside a VM on Win32 isn't adequate enough to provide unfettered hardware access to the extra MiniPCI slots. Enabling VTxtensions doens't make a difference.
Win32 (XP, Vista, Win7 and Win8 BETA / RTM) recognizes the adapters, installs drivers and even reads their MaC ID's but refuses to TX/RX signal from them. Win32 allows some cards to transmit an announcement frame and keeps the antennas hot and detectable by other WiFi sniffers but doesn't allow your adapters to interactively RX or TX. At the same time, pen tests against the restrained cards failed since all other packets were summarily dropped.
In a suitable version of uBuntu, this three card system dominated the surrounding airspace like a roving wolf claiming new territory.
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