On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adding dish-type antennae to APs apparently helps in directing the > signal, but is there any way to make the client's antenna more > directional? I'm thinking of laptops with built-in wireless, > mostly.
You can't beat the physics of the situation, namely, you need a larger aperture to capture the signals. It is rumored that some laptops have an external antenna connector, I have never seen one. There are Cardbus wireless NICs that have a connector for an external antenna. There are also USB NICs that have a larger antenna built in. Examples of these two types can be found at, among other places, Hawking Technologies: <http://tinyurl.com/2opxyo> <http://tinyurl.com/82alk> If you don't mind people staring at you when you use it, you can make one yourself: <http://www.instructables.com/id/Uni-Directional-WIFI-Range-Extender/> carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
