I have an Acer Aspire 3004 and live in a neighborhood that I suspect has some wifi but I get nothing using the built-in wifi antenna. I've read about modding a laptop to use an external antenna but would like to know what the practical benefit of doing so would be. Would there be a potentially huge difference, maybe even picking up signals never before seen or would it not make a big difference.
Thanks.
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Connecting to networks with out permission is a form of theft in most all states. So their is no need to modify your setup. If you want internet service pay for it, don't steal it from your neighbors.
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I second the motion - would you want someone mooching off of you?
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I aree with the previous two people.
However, I did play with using a grid antenna to pick up our wireless broadcast from our university. It worked okay, but we weren't able to get a good LOS to the broadcast location as we had to point through a window and got a lot of interference.
We also tried another unit (forgot what it was called) that had an antenna that looked kind of like a long white coffee can. It worked as well. Again though, it could be considered stealing. -
i would either invest in a pcmcia wifi card to see if the signal acceptance can be any better or upgrade ur internal module to a stronger (?) one
cheers ...
Benefit of external antenna?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jchristman, Jan 4, 2007.