Buffalo WLI-CB-G54HP Card...

John, Jeff and Jack...

Thanks again guys for pointing this card out to me a few weeks back.
FTR, I picked one up and have just recently started playing around
with it.

Here's what I've encountered so far...

First being that I'm using an Acer Aspire 5000 series laptop which has
a built-in Broadcom wi-fi adapter, and these two devices don't want to
work at the same time. No problem, however - I just disable the
internal wi-fi when I'm testing with the Buffalo card.

Something that has puzzled me though is that the Buffalo card seems to
have a weaker range the the internal Broadcom device. Must admit that
I figured the Buffalo PCMCIA card would be better, but perhaps I'll
only see its true colours come through when I snap in an external
antenna.

Comments or thoughts??

Paul

On 4 Mar 2007 19:40:12 -0800, "Paul Mathieu" <afs_solutions@yahoo.ca>
wrote in <1173066012.410940.289650@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>:

>Something that has puzzled me though is that the Buffalo card seems to
>have a weaker range the the internal Broadcom device. Must admit that
>I figured the Buffalo PCMCIA card would be better, but perhaps I'll
>only see its true colours come through when I snap in an external
>antenna.

Bingo. PC card antennas are quite a bit worse than better laptop
antennas, so the PC card will only shine with a good external antenna.

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