Re: Internal Antennas

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

Turns out this was the solution, I had a couple of USB wireless 802.11G 
dongles, that and a USB extension cable slung over the rearview gives me 
perfect reception.

h.

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Charlie Bruce wrote:

> The old pcbus and pcmcia cards were often extended with a soldering gun and
> a pringles can. I would hesitate to do this with
> an internal however. I have had good luck with better coverage on a cheap
> usb ( external) wireless card however.
> -charlie
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Not so much linux as linux related. Does anyone know of a clever way to
>> extend the antenna of a wireless card, or in this case an internal wireless
>> device in my laptop?
>>
>> I've been working in the car a bit, and it only seems to get signal above
>> the level of the windows, can I do the old 'solder a length of wire' to it
>> trick to get better reception?
>>
>> h.
>>
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