the pogoplug pro has it;s own wireless adapter built in so the answer to your question is that YES, it is using it;s own antennna.

as far as I know, even if you don;t use it, it just broadcasts looking for available routers to connect to.

there is no physical way to turn the built in wireless adapter off. there may be a way to do it in software from the SSH commandline. does anyone know?

is there a way to issue something like an something along the lines of an ifdown wlan0? i suppose that would depend on whether that package was actually installed on the unit....

i suppose the quickest way to nirvana for this person would be to return the unit for a non wifi version if it;s that big a deal....

for this guy, that might be the lesser of 2 evils. besides, the pogoplug tends to not get power cycled often-just kind of sits there. if he wanted to make it permanent, maybe there is a config file that could be edited with a line commented out as you suggested.

hmmm....i wonder if this could have helped the guy from a few weeks ago who could not seem to get his wireless working at all-to issue an ifup command.

Unless of course, the user is using Wifi to connect to my.pogoplug.com, and which point.. WhOOPS!

Sure there are: all of the other pogoplug models don't have wifi, so any of them would suit your needs.

Ah, ok. Then in that case I'll look into it later today if I can find time.