Lot's of folks are selling the 2532. Looks like it currently goes for 
between $54-$63:

http://reviews.cnet.com/SMC_SMC2532W_B_2_4GHz_802_11b_High_Power_Wireless_PC_
Card/4505-3251_7-21183545.html?tag=topprods

Cheer,
Allen

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:40:53 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote
> 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
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