You'd probably be better off with an antenna on your computer. The problem is likely that you can see the AP from your computer, but that the computer's card built-in antenna is not getting sufficient signal back to the AP. Putting an antenna of some kind on your laptop to give it some gain other than .3 gain or whatever it might have would be a good bet.
On Sunday 17 August 2003 03:39, KUROSAKA Teruhiko wrote: > Hello, > I have a LinkSys 2.4 GHz wireless router, model BEFW11S4. > I have this in my living room and I was hoping I could use > my PC in my bedroom, which is about 15 m (50 ft) away but > there is a door and a wall between the two points. Unfortunately, > the connection turned out to be sporadic. Sometime I get connection > and sometime not. So I am trying to find a solution to > extend the signal reach a little bit. First thing I would > like to try before buying a $100 booster is to use an external > directional antenna with extension cable so that it can be > positioned in a better place. But I cannot find a place > to buy such thing. > > Googling on this subject yielded only Cantenna. It, however, > seems to be designed to be attached to the PC side, not the router. > They don't sell a cable for BEFW11S4. > > I went to a local Radio Shack also. They do sell cables with BNC > connector. But they don't sell external antennas. I was hoping > I could use the antenna that comes with the router because it is > detachable. But the antenna has a plastic sleeve around its male > connector and that prevents it from connecting to a regular female > BNC connector, which also has a metal screwing sleeve. > > So, anybody has any suggestion how to get around this situation? -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 1796276 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
