On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:10:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thank you for answering. Already helped me a bit. You were right - > the transmitting power of my cards is way too low. In case I hold my > laptop far out of the window I will get associated with the access > points (Citi-Net Wireless Internet, citinet, citinet-public), but as > it is raining today I won't do that for too long ;-) > > Do you have any idea where I can buy such a Engenius 200mw adapter?
Not the Engenius, necessarily, but the SMC 2532, which may be a badge engineered version of that card -- and of which I wrote a short review (laudable) here about 3 weeks ago -- is available from Page Computer (www.pagecomputers.com), though I'm damned if I can navigate their silly search interface tonight; I think it's borke. :-) I paid $51 for mine, with a duplicate for my sister and 3 day shipping it was *still* under $120. They will ship next day, if you want to pay for it. List is $90, it might still be cheaper than retail depending on where you are. I remain happy with it: 200mw, reportedly higher receive sensitivity, removable patch antenna with dual external antenna jacks. And it doesn't suck my battery down all that horribly much harder. Hasn'f failed to do anything I ask it to, including running with Linux wlan-ng (you likely will need to use that instead of the default drivers) and run Kismet just nice. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
