I just need a really cheap one... like $10 shipped or less...
It needs to work decent, so no no name brands, or if it is, it needs to have good reviews
Thnak
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$10...yur gonna get what u pay for...i swear by my Hawking HWUG1...have the stock antenna replaced with a 5dbi antenna...world of difference...
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well, i ahd a $10 one, adn it worked great... but i lost it
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if you do get one with a dongle it is better to use that.i read an article where they test usb with and w/out the dongle and an express card, and the usb with the dongle performed the best.
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The cheapest is the one you don't buy
Here is the cheapest, I think is about $7;
http://www.airlinkplus.com/wireless/awll3025.htm -
ehh...working great...here's a screenie of my NIC...i'm outside in the garage...i've got a homeade antenna from the house...built out of an old cell phone in a bag antenna...but it's still 20 or 30 feet away...
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Why did you put the antenna inside a plastic tube?
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it's outside...in the weather...didn't want it to get wet when it's raining...and yes it grounded with a (spark lightning arrestor) to a 6 foot steel rod buried in the ground...ground wire soldered directely to rod...not to much on those fasteners...they tend to rust...and with the rust goes your ground...
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wow, do know of any good tutorials for making an external antenna like that.right now i use a small hawking dish antenna, but i can get a direct tv dish, i might take it and look a tutorial up.
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Parabolic antenna feeders are frequency dependent, and you have to make sure of well matching all the antenna system components, feeder, transmission line, LNA/PA, etc.
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i found a guide to make one, seems easy enough.
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Can you post it?
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here's the link
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That's so nice, but I find they made it more painful than it was necessary. The satellite link uses the c-band (3.7 - 4.2GHz) and utilizes a waveguide to capture the signal, which the guide instruct to remove. They could have just used a different waveguide to capture signal in the WISP frequency band, which is much easier to do that the antenna they did. Then to convert the coax into the appropriate laptop antenna connector, actually it could also use the RF connector for the TV tuner, just bridged to the wireless card antenna input, so you don't lose the capability to go to a hot spot w/o such a big antenna.
Cheapest USB Wireless Adaptor
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by aan310, Jul 26, 2008.