Acer Aspire One built in wireless really 500mW?

[Duane Attaway]

That's what iwconfig shows!

Does anyone else have one of these netbooks with the new native 2.6.27 
ath5k wireless drivers installed?  iwconfig is showing 27dbm transmit 
power.  That can't be right, but my wireless router is showing a 13db 
stronger signal compared to my other laptops.  That would put it around 
500mW.

Unfortunately, the iwconfig txpower setting doesn't seem to lower the 
power.  I don't need to transmit to the entire neighborhood.  And when I 
send large files for half an hour or more, I need to reboot by taking out 
the battery to reset the wireless module.  It gets that hot.

The reception on the card is quite good too.  Very good signal to noise 
ratio.

localhost dattaway # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"ilikecheesereallyido"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 
00:14:BF:04:F6:2F
           Bit Rate=12 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=40/100  Signal level:-76 dBm  Noise level=-102 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0