Originally Posted by gamr343

Hi, I also have a Linksys WPC54G and went driveing on a short drive home and found 7 APs, all UNPROTECTED, how stupid are these people, lol. I just found one at my school, let it scan for like 30 mins and boom found it (after moving to a diff room) and all my classes just seem to be out of range for the network card to make a connection. I can make a connection out in the hallway and if i walk slowly i can bring it into the room, but its rare that i get it at all, lol. And whoever set up this network is also an idiot, not secured at all, no wep, no mac address filtering, nothing! I was wondering if there is absolutely ANY way to increase the range on the card? I kno it doesnt have an antenna jack on it, stupid Linksys. Any tips or anything? Im pretty new to the stumbling scene. Went on a main road in my town the other day, found about 30/40 aps in under an hour (not sure exactly) most unprotected. As for compatibility with the WPC54G and Netstumbler, i have never had a problem with it. Always worked for me. I used Netstumbler in conjunction with the Linksys Utility, Windows XP SP2's network finding thing, and WiNc. I use Netstumbler to find the networks in the first place, then use WiNc to connect automatically.


Any help greatly appreciated!