Battery life...greatly reduced since going wireless!

[NorthstaNder]

Hi,

Battery life has never been great on my lappy...around 2 hours on high power setting.

However since going wireless it has reduced drastically....to around 1 hour 20 mins.

Does this sound right/normal? Or could my battery be on it's way out already? (I've had my laptop since early December so it's not very old).

Thanks

 

[NorthstaNder]

That's not right, shouldn't be using that much power. What's the 'High Power' setting you mentioned?

One thing you can try is, in Device Manager, set the wireless power to low, it might reduce power consumption a bit.

I shall have a look at the power consumption of the wireless adaptor thanks.

As for the high power setting...it just means i'm running everything at full speed. my laptop has the option of throttling the cpu etc so it uses less power, but i run it at max

Actually, in the end the battery ended up lasting nearly two hours last night so perhaps the battery life indicator built into vista isn't that great?