Eric Graham
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Additionally, they aren't giving free cards. However, for a limited time, there is no activation fee.[/b]
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Additionally, they aren't giving free cards. However, for a limited time, there is no activation fee.[/b]
Sorrymy bad heard the Sprint commercial wrong makes better since now. BTW anybody who has bought the card/attena combo from ebay whats the speed rating for the attena mount?
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Something else that will help is to get an external wireless card.
Even though my laptop has built in wireless, when I am chasing I only use the external Orinoco Gold Combo PCMCIA card with an external 7dBi antenna magnet mounted on the roof. I can pick up WIFI where you wouldn't think WIFI existed...
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Bill,
Can you estimate how much better your range is with the external antenna/card setup, versus a card with no antenna capability. I am trying to decide if it is worth the $$ to replace my linksys card with the Orinoco.
I am more or less stuck with Verizon's Quick2Net service for another year. It is cheap ($5/month), but has also not performed that well in practice. At any rate, the Cingular and Sprint options aren't really there for me right now, and I'd like to improve my WIFI capability.
Thanks,
TonyC
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David, check out the link http://linksysco.com/box.php! If you want to flash your own, you apparently can for free. It's all software, not counting the WRT54G box itself.
I had read some time ago that the early version of the unit (the one Monica and I use for our wireless home net) had a PROM-based Linux OS that you could reconfigure from the shell to boost the power, etc., etc. In later versions Linksys locked the kernel so you couldn't mess with it that way.
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