Righty... Last night found out that by hanging out of the girls bedroom window with the laptop I can pickup the open wireless connection from the cafe down the road but its horribly low signal strenght and randomly disconnects. So... i either need a recommendation of a cheap USB / PCMI wifi card with exteranl wireless or some ideas on how to extend signal.
Cantenna?
I had good results with the buffalo cards with the external antenna socket and a simple antenna
Pringles tube hooked outside the window *EARTHED!!!* using a cheap antenna :)
as above, baked bean tin/pringles tube antennas are supposed to be good.
did you have any luck with this? Ive been trying to get my wireless to work in my outbuildings, without much luck untill today.
bought one of these:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131877
it helped but it still dropped the connection alot, so I had a brain wave and did this bit of bodging.
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s81/robdav99/DSC00644.jpg)
LOL
now I get Excellent signal strength and minimum 22Mbps all the time and no drops for over an hour.
DOH take it back! just lost connection completly.
why would it be perfect for 2hours then drop for no reason? I hate wireless.
Quote from: DEViANCEDOH take it back! just lost connection completly.
why would it be perfect for 2hours then drop for no reason? I hate wireless.
Cordless phones, tumble dryer on, Freak of a person over electrical standing in front of an antenna for 5 mins.. The amount of things that effect them still is quite long