Poor Wirless Reception in Dorm Room

Hello,

I am running a mac mini in my dorm room at university and my reception
to the university wireless is crap (internal wifi card macintosh) or
just falls out completley.

I tried getting a belkin wireless adaptor (connects to my mac mini via
internet). But when I went to the device's internal webpage it seemed
to want information on the universities wireless router. I tried to
put the ip addresses in the same range, etc... but in the end the two
systems did not want to shake hands.

It may be partially due to the fact that the university wireless router
forces the user to go to their logon page when you first start up your
wireless connection to the system.

Anyway. I returned the product. I am just looking for something like
my internal wireless card but instead a wireless adaptor (ethernet or
usb) with a better antenna. Any suggestions?

Cheers

Bert

> Any suggestions?

Call university computer support. They likely have a pretty strict policy
on what they'll let you connect to the network. Work with them. Otherwise
your attempts to add things may end up making it WORSE for the available
wireless nearby.

Normally, I would agree with you. I'm at a university dorm in Spain
and I do not speak Spanish or Catalan. I tried to speak with
university IT once on the phone and it was hopeless.

I was thinking of a usb wireless adaptor with a good antenna. I don't
want to add to the network but want to improve my Tx/Rx.

Cheers,

Bert



Bill Kearney wrote:
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Call university computer support. They likely have a pretty strict policy
> on what they'll let you connect to the network. Work with them. Otherwise
> your attempts to add things may end up making it WORSE for the available
> wireless nearby.

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> Normally, I would agree with you. I'm at a university dorm in Spain
> and I do not speak Spanish or Catalan. I tried to speak with
> university IT once on the phone and it was hopeless.

Ah, good point.

> I was thinking of a usb wireless adaptor with a good antenna. I don't
> want to add to the network but want to improve my Tx/Rx.

Yes, then a USB dongle is probably a cheap/easy way to try improving it.
Get a 15' cable (the max for USB) so you can reposition it better. Or get a
hub and TWO 15' cables and put the hub in-between. This way you might also
be able to leave the USB device mounted in the room to keep you from having
to do it over and over again.

-Bill

On 13 Oct 2006 07:06:03 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed). com>:

>Normally, I would agree with you. I'm at a university dorm in Spain
>and I do not speak Spanish or Catalan. I tried to speak with
>university IT once on the phone and it was hopeless.

No Spanish-speaking buddy to help you? Really?

>I was thinking of a usb wireless adaptor with a good antenna. I don't
>want to add to the network but want to improve my Tx/Rx.

Hawking HWU8DD

>Bill Kearney wrote:
>> > Any suggestions?
>>
>> Call university computer support. They likely have a pretty strict policy
>> on what they'll let you connect to the network. Work with them. Otherwise
>> your attempts to add things may end up making it WORSE for the available
>> wireless nearby.

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