802.11x, PCMCIA (or USB) adapter with RSSI and external antenna

Miem 19 years ago

Hi,

There are vast amunt of variety for 802.11 network adapter cards in the market.

For an experiement I am searching for 802.11x (a,b,g) adapter card with PCMCIA (or USB) interface. This experiments will look at the RSSI (Rceive Signal Strength Indication), channel capacity (throughput), as a function of the range between two communication nodes, antenna type, polarization etc.

(A) Do you know any off the shelf 802.11x network adapter card with the following specs * Software drivers for MS - Windows, Linux and QNX operating systems * PCMCIA (or USB) interface * RSSI (Rceive Signal Strength Indication) * External antenna connection (B) If you have you done similar experiments would you like to share your findings with us?

Regards

Miem Chan

miemchan at yahoo com au

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Gerard Bok 19 years ago

Just a side note: You talk about PCMCIA. You may want to look into 'Cardbus'.

PCMCIA, which now formally goes by the name of 'PCCard' supports

16 bits systems only. The vast majority of notebook cards nowadays are of the Cardbus type, which is the 32-bit version of 'PCMCIA'. (And it looks almost the same :-)

Note also, that some older notebooks only support PCCard / PCMCIA and not Cardbus. All current notebooks support both types of cards.

Kind regards, Gerard Bok

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Miem 19 years ago

Gerard,

Thank you for the correction. Yes, you are absolutely right. As I use new types of notebook computer, I should have said "PCCard" instead of "PCMCIA".

(A) Do you know any off the shelf 802.11x network adapter card with the following specs * Software drivers for MS - Windows, Linux and QNX operating systems * PCCard (or USB) interface * RSSI (Rceive Signal Strength Indication) * External antenna connection Regards,

Miem

Gerard Bok wrote

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