[QCLUG] Wireless card for my laptop

[Noah Norris]

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on ebay you can find a cheap usb wireless card with external ant for about
$18 ( come with 5DB ant but you can hook other things into them )

Sometime wireless access points need to be rebooted / reset often ( seems
the more options enabled the worse they can get )  i tend to have weird
problems for example on some linux connects every time but after awhile
windows boxes would drop  or the ps3 would not connect and sometimes nothing
would . unpluging it for a bit would let everything connect (my access point
only have wireless enabled and is used only as a pass through to my home
network)

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:

> I figured it out. It wasn't a Linux or computer problem. It was a bad
> router. I had the same problem with my old Linksys router so I bought a new
> "N" router. Since I had the same problem with it I figured it had to be
> Linux or the computer. Later I figured out the same problem existed with
> Windows so it wasn't Linux. I took it to the Library and tried it on their 3
> networks and didn't have a problem. I replaced the router with a Netgear "N"
> router and it seems to work fine. I did notice that once in a while the
> connection strength will drop from 100% down to about 15% and then right
> back up. Don't know what causes that. Had a big drop from time to time at
> the library also. If I have problems again I will try a new external card in
> my laptop.
>
> Bob Jones
>
> Steve Langasek wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 07:33:46AM -0500, Robert Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thank You Steve, I wasn't smart enough to change the name of the
>>>  backports from intrepid to jaunty :-( .
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's not obvious, but it's necessary to ensure that users don't get a
>> whole
>> *different* set of backports when they upgrade between releases.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I installed it again yesterday, the forth time, and it seems to be
>>> better.
>>> I'll watch it close and if it fails again I'll give the jaunty backport a
>>> try. I assume that I'll have to install the NDISWrapper to get that to
>>> work.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ndiswrapper is unrelated to the backports package.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>>
>>
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