Re: Need Advise about far-range pcmcia card & Router

thenrik wrote:
> Hi:
>
> My father is a retired mathematician, still very actively
> collaborating with other mathematicians. He travels to math meetings all
> over the globe and brings his Averatec Laptop. Apparently the built-in
> wireless card doesn't have great range as he often has trouble
> connecting at wireless cafes when others can.
>
> At home he has a wired router located in his study and wants to
> replace it with a wireless router. He would like to take the laptop to
> other rooms in his house, all located on a single floor.
>
> So he would like to buy a pcmcia wireless card and a wireless router.
> I picked out a Lyncsys Draft-N router and card but found out they were
> manufactures in October and January respectively. The Draft-N PCMCIA
> card's performance was horrible--kept on losing the connecting from my
> Belkin54g router located 15 feet away, every ten or fifteen minutes or
> so.
>
> My father needs range not speed as he mostly sends email or pdf files
> with his mathematical software and some light web browsing but could use
> some range. He doesn't necessarily need N just range.
>

I own a Averatech and mine came stock with a Ralink mini pci card. I
read that they are not the greatest so I looked on eBay and bought a
card with Atheros chipset, it is a b card but I bought it for $15
delivered and am happy. Problem is b cards dont come with the best
security (wep) for a home network, but I run open security on my home
router.