I'm looking for a good pcmcia or usb 802.11g wifi adapter which operates well at long range (50-100 ft).
By "operates well" I mean "doesn't lose the signal". Even if it drops to 1 Mbps, that's fine to me.
I'm thinking of this:
Can anyone recommend any others?
Also, which has longer range: usb or pcmcia wifi?
Thanks,
Michael
Hmm... I just noticed that the Power Setting on my WiFi router was set to 4 (out of 10). Maybe that's why my laptop keeps dropping the signal from the living room.
Increasing it to level 7. Will see what happens...
Michael
The old Orinco Cards are good, 200mw ~1500' range 802.11b
Also Senaco...
Cheers
Thanks for the information. I appreciate it.
Router is now set on power level 9. I get about 18mbps on my cheap D-link card, about 50 or so feet from the router (in another room).
Disabled SSID broadcast too, while I was at it. If only my D-Link supported WPA... :-(
Michael
get the cheapest Usb one like Canyon CN-WF518 for 20$ :-)
set to 802.11b Only mode!
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I have had nothing but problems from Dlink products. I had a wired router and that one would hang every few days and require a power cycle.
I bought a newer model for my parents and coached them on what to look for but theirs seems to work fine.
So I figured ha just got a bad one and tried the d-link wireless router and PCMCIA card combo. This combo gave me fits. It would work fine for a week or so then quit. I'd fiddle, fight, change settings restart several times and nothing. Then it would magiclly start working again. Sometimes it was the card sometimes it was the router.
Finally the router died and I gladly tossed it in the trash. I bought the linksys 54G because lynksys users are writing their own firmware for it. At least that give a fighting chance to get firmware bigs fixed in a reasonable amount if time.
The Dlink card was still touch and go but better than with the dlink router. I finally tossed that and got a belkin 54G PCMCIA card and havent looked back. This combo had been solid for me and can go completely across my 2500 sqft 1 story house without losing the signal. At the extremes through a bunch of sheetrock the signal does get low but I dont totally lose connectivity.
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