You're going to have quite a time hooking up a cantenna to a TiBook . The only way I can figure to do that is to drill through the body to allow pigtail to enter the TiBook at some point then route through the book to the card. If you don't mind risking that, I'd say go for it (because the reception on 15" TiBooks is horrible - but do see the note at the end of this e-mail).
The good news is the Airport connector is the same as the Lucent/Agere/Proxim Orinoco, so there are plenty of pigtails to work with. Check out Fleeman, Anderson, and Bird Corp - they have pigtails with N-Female and N-Male ends in different lengths (http://www.fab-corp.com). FAB-corp also carries a "cantenna kit" that takes nearly all the guess work out of building a cantenna (but the kit is about $20.00 so you'll have to weigh the "do-it-yourself" vs "paying a lot of a connector I might be able to build" approach). For assembly instructions for a cantenna check out:
http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
Otherwise, that's about it. You're a brave man for drilling through your TiBook, if you do indeed take that route. I'd really suggest checking to see if a standard Lucent Orinoco card would work in your TiBook's PCMCIA slot before drilling - they are, after all, the same chipset as the 802.11b airport cards.
Greg
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 07:51 PM, Ian Meyer wrote:
Good day everyone. I just got an AIrport card for my Powerbook (a 15" one, so its regular old 802.11b) and was wondering if someone would be interested in helping me out with something. I would like to build a cantenna, but don't want to go it alone if theres someone here that knows a bit about it and wouldn't mind helping me out. Not only would I have to get the cantenna, but also rig up a way to connect to the Airport card inside the Ti, although I have an idea about that.
If anyone would be willing to help me out, let me know.
Thanks, Ian
p.s.: sorry bout the OT-ness, but I figured that you guys know a lot, so I might as well ask. I will also send this to the InternetWorkers list.
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