Re: Advice needed on Wireless Network Card (amongst other things)

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:46:52 -0500, armando
<armando.34suma@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> wrote in
<armando.34suma@no-mx.wirelessforums.org>:

>So I am with Telstra Clear Cable (NZ) and have a Telstra Cable Modem,
>hooked-up to a Linksys WRT-54GL, running the Linksys firmware at the
>moment. Also attached is a Linksys NSLU2 NAS device with a couple of
>hard drives.
>
>Basically, what I want to know is, how can I obtain excellent wireless
>reception on my laptop. My Toshiba A-100 Series laptop wifi in-build is
>CRAP. In only ever get fair (and good when I'm literally next to the
>Router). This is really bad for streaming video off the NSLU2 etc, not
>to mention simple things such as surfing the web.
>
>I should point out that my friends who use it get "excellent"
>reception, and good at worst. So this must be a crap WIFI card which is
>in-built.

Sounds like a crappy antenna, or perhaps even a disconnected antenna.
Suggest you check out that possibility.

>Can people please recommend a wireless PCMCIA (I think??) card for me
>to put into my laptop so I can get closer to the theoretical maximum of
>54mbps?

You do know that actually throughput will be about half of that at best?

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