Gigabyte Adapter

05-22-2008, 04:16 PM

I have a Linksys wireless router.
My son-in-law lives across the street and has a gigabyte PCI air cruiser adapter card and he cannot find me. we are thinking of putting a Hawkins corner antenna to his card. A laptop did find my router but it was weak or fair.
Will that corner antenna enable him to use my internet connection?
charles

05-22-2008, 11:23 PM

When you leave out important details like conditions between the buildings
and the model of your gear it's impossible to give effective answers.

Wifi won't travel great distances, that's not what it's designed to do.
Yes, with special equipment you can certainly improve this. But
fundamentally it's designed to be a very localized network. That and the
type of antennas use to make point-to-point connections are lousy at also
providing area coverage. You essentially have to use devices dedicated for
either purpose, not one for both.

So ask better questions, get better answers.

"Charles Arnett" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:48359c5e$0$5733$(E-Mail Removed)...
I have a Linksys wireless router.
My son-in-law lives across the street and has a gigabyte PCI air cruiser
adapter card and he cannot find me. we are thinking of putting a Hawkins
corner antenna to his card. A laptop did find my router but it was weak or
fair.
Will that corner antenna enable him to use my internet connection?
charles

05-24-2008, 10:38 PM

Charles Arnett wrote:
> I have a Linksys wireless router.
> My son-in-law lives across the street and has a gigabyte PCI air
> cruiser adapter card and he cannot find me. we are thinking of
> putting a Hawkins corner antenna to his card. A laptop did find my
> router but it was weak or fair.
> Will that corner antenna enable him to use my internet connection?
> charles

I'm guessing this is the card ?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Air.../dp/B000HD102C

what model Linksys AP do you have ?
where is your AP located ?
can he see it directly from a window across the street ?
how far from his "sighting" window is his desktop.... ie - how long a
cable to run ?

05-30-2008, 09:26 AM

Please don't post to usenet in html:

ps56k <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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> Charles Arnett wrote: > I have a Linksys wireless router. > My son-in-law
> lives across the street and has a gigabyte PCI air > cruiser adapter card
> and he cannot find me. we are thinking of > putting a Hawkins corner
> antenna to his card. A laptop did find my > router but it was weak or
> fair. > Will that corner antenna enable him to use my internet connection?
> > charles
>
> I'm guessing this is the card ?
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Air...k-adapter/dp/B
> 000HD102C
>
> what model Linksys AP do you have ? where is your AP located ? can he see
> it directly from a window across the street ? how far from his "sighting"
> window is his desktop.... ie - how long a cable to run ?
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> PCI air<BR>> cruiser adapter card and he cannot find me.  we are
> thinking of<BR>> putting a Hawkins corner antenna to his card.  A
> laptop did find my<BR>> router but it was weak or fair.  
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06-01-2008, 03:51 AM

this is plain text,
must have picked up the HTML from the weblink -

ps56k wrote:
> Charles Arnett wrote:
>> I have a Linksys wireless router.
>> My son-in-law lives across the street and has a gigabyte PCI air
>> cruiser adapter card and he cannot find me. we are thinking of
>> putting a Hawkins corner antenna to his card. A laptop did find my
>> router but it was weak or fair.
>> Will that corner antenna enable him to use my internet connection?
>> charles
>
I'm guessing this is the card ?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Air.../dp/B000HD102C what model Linksys AP do you have ? where is your AP located ? can he see it directly from a window across the street ? how far from his "sighting" window is his desktop.... ie - how long a cable to run ?

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