wireless PCMCIA card
Duane Attaway
dattaway at attaway.net
Wed Jul 31 21:46:01 CDT 2002
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> What I'm looking for in a wireless card is an 802.11a card with an external
> antenna connector for that Pringles can...
My wpc11 card has an external antenna jack. It didn't come like that
though, but it was pretty easy to modify. I simply flipped the plastic
cover off with my fingernail, pryed the jumper switch away from the
circuit board with a soldering iron, scraped away some fresh copper, and
layed down a rg/6 connector in a fresh pool of molen solder on the board.
The circuit trace that went to the card's tiny internal antenna now leads
to the connector.
With just a 15 minute soldering job, my wpc11 picks up sites many blocks
away with a small external antenna. I'm now working on a simple waveguide
type antenna to boost that range for miles. I hear the soup cans kick the
pringles cans, many dB's over.
I hear the Cisco cards may be a bit more expensive, but they have
incredible power output.
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