Rangebooster G PCI Card???

Hi everybody, I just purchased a D-Link Rangebooster G PCI card, model
number WDA-2320. Hardware version is A1 and firmware version is 1.00.
I selected this particular card because I thought that "rangebooster"
meant it would give me a higher signal percentage as well as longer
range, but apparently I thought wrong. Replacing my old D-Link DWL-520
(not plus), which gave me an average signal strength of 11 mb/s "good"
or "low" using the Windows XP's Wireless zero-configuration service.
With the "rangebooster" card, I am getting 54 mb/s speed, but signal
strength fluctuates between "low" and "very low." Can anyone offer an
explanation for this? The PC is in the exact same place, as is the
router. The antenna is positioned exactly the same as it was
previously, and other than the fact that I've put in this new card,
nothing has changed. Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks in advance,
-Hukuis

On 23 Jun 2006 07:09:04 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote in
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>Hi everybody, I just purchased a D-Link Rangebooster G PCI card, model
>number WDA-2320. Hardware version is A1 and firmware version is 1.00.
>I selected this particular card because I thought that "rangebooster"
>meant it would give me a higher signal percentage as well as longer
>range, but apparently I thought wrong. Replacing my old D-Link DWL-520
>(not plus), which gave me an average signal strength of 11 mb/s "good"
>or "low" using the Windows XP's Wireless zero-configuration service.
>With the "rangebooster" card, I am getting 54 mb/s speed, but signal
>strength fluctuates between "low" and "very low." Can anyone offer an
>explanation for this? The PC is in the exact same place, as is the
>router. The antenna is positioned exactly the same as it was
>previously, and other than the fact that I've put in this new card,
>nothing has changed. Any advice would be helpful.

"There is no magic."(c) Especially when you don't control both ends of
the wireless connection, you really need a better antenna, not a
different product. See the wikis below.

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