Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-09 Thread Grant
I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If it were an expensive one from a specialist supplier then I might have higher expectations, but I'm pretty sure a customer of mine used one similar to yours, and they used to use a book to balance it at an angle to try get reception.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to perfectly, but the external antenna can't find whatsoever, even after a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 15:49, Grant wrote: ... That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is attached instead of the strong directional one. Could a failing antenna exhibit this behavior? I'm extremely

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is attached instead of the strong directional one.  Could a failing antenna exhibit this behavior? I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 21:09, Grant wrote: ... I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If it were an expensive one from a specialist supplier then I might have higher expectations, but I'm pretty sure a customer of mine used one similar to yours, and they used to use a book to

[gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-05 Thread Grant
I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to perfectly, but the external antenna can't find whatsoever, even after a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-05 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to