Re: [iPAQ] 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card.

You can certainly get more range with good antennas and serious
amplification!

Ages ago, I co-wrote the "arlan wireless howto", still available at
http://www.rage.net/wireless. Lotsa stuff about siting, the funky
cabling required and oddball connectors, etc, is in there.

I have since upgraded to cisco 340 cards running at 11Mbit.

I still get my my networking at home via this 13 mile connection to the
net, using some nice antennas and a 1w 2.4Ghz amp from a company called
www.hyperlinktech.com. Recently, however, the noise floor of the valley
has gone way up, and my connection gone down to 2Mbit/sec or (much)
less. (theoretically due to the ricosh*t rollout of their new 128K
service). It's a tragedy of the commons situation, Ricochet has
thousands of routers broadcasting all over the 2.4Ghz spectrum, and I
doubt that 2.4 Ghz will remain useful for longer (+3mile) distances in
the very near future. Harris has a new chipset due out soon that does
100Mbit in the 5.8Ghz range. (more details after I get back from ESC).

You can certainly get more range with good antennas and serious
amplification!

Jamey Hicks wrote:
>
> > Mmm... yeah I already think I'm gonna have to rip a wavelan apart and
> > possibly give it some more juice to get it to go as far as I would like it
> > to. I mean, if you are walking around the same office why not just plug
> > into one of the numerous network jacks? I'd like to at least be able to
> > go outside the building with it, get some fresh air, something I haven't
> > done in years, heh.
> >
>
> Not more juice. Better antennas.
>
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