Nick N mentioned something about external USB wireless cards.
Why cannot one such device be built-into the desktop or laptop monitor frame.
The antenna could be inches to over a foot long.
My laptop frame is molded plastic. Hardly any metal in my laptop case.
Ditto for my desktop monitor
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>From: Jeremy <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] OT: Looking for an Atheros wireless card for a Lenovo T60
>
>On 11-09-26 02:20 PM, Nick Nobody wrote:
>> Hello mluggers!
>>
>> I've been fighting with the on-board wireless (Intel 3954) in my T60
>> ever since I got it. At home it works perfectly, good speeds and the
>> connection never drops out. But if I bring it anywhere where a bunch of
>> people are using the same access point the connection drops frequently
>> and it takes a significant amount of time for it to come back.
>> Restarting the network manager daemon normally speeds things up but it's
>> still very annoying.
>Personally (for both cost and ease of finding it) I would find the smallest
>USB wifi adapter I could and strip it down even more. Then use a very short
>usb cable to go around the back of the system and velcro it to a blank space
>somewhere. Disable internal network card and voila. I have done this myself,
>use the good industrial velcro stuff, I even used to attach an external hard
>drive to my eeepc like this.
>
>It is even conceivable you could mount it inside somewhere and connect to an
>internal USB header.
>
>Not as nice as having the stock one, but with that BIOS bullcrap and the high
>cost of the internal cards...
>
>Have you looked into filing a bug report on it?
>
>Jeremy
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