To have a better wifi signal on a laptop

Hi all,
I live in a complex which provides me an awful internet connection.
Each building has his own access point, but the nearest to me gets
disconnected (would you say go down maybe? or inactive?) often, and
comes back in a minute, which is quite annoying,because the other
access points don't have a signal strong enough to let me use the
internet confortably. I have a laptop, I was thinking about buying
something to increase the range of this, for, at least getting the
connection to the other buildings access points, which looks more
stable,and even if not,to swith from one to another which works
wouldn't be bad. If then I get maybe a faster, open connection, also
better...
I was thinking about this, 802.11g Wireless USB 2.0 LAN Adapter High
Gain Antenna - (eBay item 200145726236 end time Sep-23-07 12:41:19
PDT)
It's cheap, even though not the strongest, but also more compact than
others.
Maybe (what do you think?) I could also upgrade the antenna, and R-SMA
antenna look to be much cheaper then USB one. Even though the usb
dongle has RP-SMA (what does this mean, compared to R-SMA?)
What do you think? Sorry for the newbie's questions...but I'm quite
confused.
Any comment and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Dedalus

metellone wrote:
> Hi all,
> I live in a complex which provides me an awful internet connection.


If this is something that is actually a feature of your complex why not
contact the management and tell them that you are unable to use it?

> Each building has his own access point, but the nearest to me gets
> disconnected (would you say go down maybe? or inactive?) often, and
> comes back in a minute, which is quite annoying,because the other
> access points don't have a signal strong enough to let me use the
> internet confortably. I have a laptop, I was thinking about buying
> something to increase the range of this, for, at least getting the
> connection to the other buildings access points, which looks more
> stable,and even if not,to swith from one to another which works
> wouldn't be bad. If then I get maybe a faster, open connection, also
> better...
> I was thinking about this, 802.11g Wireless USB 2.0 LAN Adapter High
> Gain Antenna - (eBay item 200145726236 end time Sep-23-07 12:41:19
> PDT)
> It's cheap, even though not the strongest, but also more compact than
> others.
> Maybe (what do you think?) I could also upgrade the antenna, and R-SMA
> antenna look to be much cheaper then USB one. Even though the usb
> dongle has RP-SMA (what does this mean, compared to R-SMA?)
> What do you think? Sorry for the newbie's questions...but I'm quite
> confused.
> Any comment and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
> Dedalus
>

On 21 Set, 15:47, George <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> metellone wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I live in a complex which provides me an awful internet connection.
>
> If this is something that is actually a feature of your complex why not
> contact the management and tell them that you are unable to use it?

The complex offers it, but not provide it, and so it's not responsible
for it. It's another company who manage it.

On 21 Set, 16:52, metellone <metell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 Set, 15:47, George <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
> > metellone wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I live in a complex which provides me an awful internet connection.
>
> > If this is something that is actually a feature of your complex why not
> > contact the management and tell them that you are unable to use it?
>
> The complex offers it, but not provide it, and so it's not responsible
> for it. It's another company who manage it.

Don't you have anything to suggest? Any hardware suggestion that you
think might work fine?