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Old 07-17-2004, 10:28 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Extending the range of my wireless card

I travel a lot, and most of the time i find myself just out of range w/ my factory integrated wireless on my HP ze4500 Celeron Laptop, any suggestions? USB antenna?
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Old 07-17-2004, 11:04 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Without opening up the laptop and doing modifications to it there is no way othere than to add a new wireless card, such as the Lucent/Orinoco card with an extrnal jack to connect an ant. to....
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Old 07-17-2004, 11:44 AM   #3 (permalink)
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There's not much you can do. However, if you get a weak signal, you'll find that positioning the laptop and rotating it within the room can sometimes make the most of a crappy signal. If you have anything to monitor the signal strength or SNR you'll find it helpful (netstumbler works, and there are many others).

If you want to consider adding a card, I'm a big fan of the SMC 2532W-B high power 802.11b card. It's about $55. Great sensitivity and you can add an external antenna too. If you're doing business travel just expense it!
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Old 07-17-2004, 01:14 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Try the cantenna.
http://www.cantenna.com/

Some ornicoro cards have a little hole where you can put in an antenna wire to drape out the window.

There are more expensive cantenna like devices that you actually point like a radar gun in the direction of the signal.
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Old 07-23-2004, 04:38 PM   #5 (permalink)
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you can opt for a PCMCIA wireless card with an antenna and jsut disable the internal one.. Cisco makes a damn nice card, the antenna even unscrews so you can connect and external antenna for a bit better range (or war driving)
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Old 07-25-2004, 04:49 AM   #6 (permalink)
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You could try this, build yourself a parabolic antenna for ~10 cents.
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