Zeppo <zeppo_m@hotmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I need to try this, if just for the novelty value of the idea. :-)

> Do I use this on the router antennae, or the desktop's PCI card antenna (or
> both)? If used on the router, do I need one for each antenna or just use it
> on one?

Three.
Putting it on the PCI antenna will help.
Putting it on one of the WAP antennas will help, but I found that if both
antennas have signal, my SMC7004WFW would toggle back and forth between the
good signal and the poor signal.

http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/w...fer-dining.JPG The signal with
the reflector is not only 13dB stronger, it's more stable.


PCI antennas are often blocked by the PC itself. Is your PC facing in the
right direction? If there's an upstairs downstairs angle, you might want
the antennas at matching angles, so they are "broadside" to each other.



With 54g connections, I find that watching the "current bandwidth" in the
Windows perfmon.msc is a pretty good signal indicator.
start-run-perfmon.msc
+ Performance Object = Network
Numbers agree with dslreports.
+ Performance Object = TCP "current bandwidth"

You can watch the throughput while copying locally as well as from the
internet. The internet link is the slow link, but I found that a WiFi link
that is low and fluctuating while you are observing it is likely hanging
from time to time due to poor signal, or other interactions and
interference in the house that varies with time.

On one PCI card, I added a "Hawking HAI6SDA Directional 6dBi 2.4GHz Antenna"
http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=143


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