WIFI 802.11g on your HTC Wizard

The HTC Wizard has WIFI built-in, which in itself is wonderful. However, some manufacturers have decided not to enable 802.11g connectivity by default. More and more people own wireless network equipment based on the 802.11g standard and want to connect with their HTC Wizard.





The following registry tweak allows connecting to a 802.11g network. Be aware that using this tweak will not give you a much faster wireless connection on your HTC Wizard, the hardware is simply not fast enough to cope with the theoretical speed of 54 Mb/s. However, the tweak will enable you to connect to 802.11g-only networks, which is a big advantage.

Please take a look at this topic on the XDA Developers Forum for more information. In this topic people discuss a .cab file that tweaks some more settings on your HTC Wizard than just the enabling of 802.11g, but I’ll discuss those in a future post.

To enable 802.11g capability to your HTC Wizard make the following changes in the registry:

  • Use Total Commander to navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\TNETWLN1\PARMS
  • Assign a value of 1 to dot11SupportedRateMask
  • Assign a value of 8 to dot11SupportedRateMaskG
  • Perform a soft reset


    • Those of you who don't feel comfortable editing the registry can download the attached .cab file, put it on their HTC Wizard, execute and soft reset. The attached file is visible to registered members of the HTC Wizard Web only.




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