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Old 12-31-2004   #1 (permalink)
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Orinoco Gold card, setting for external antenna?
I've got the orinoco gold card, and a 8db antenna, and when i have it connected and net stumbler running, i will get some AP, but if i disable that and enable my internal dell wifi card, i pick up more AP's then with the orinoco and the antenna? Is there a setting I need to change or something?
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How are you getting the signal from the antenna to the card?

Coax size/type, length, # of connectors? You probably have some high loss coax and it is killing much of the gain your antenna is providing.
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its from hyperlinktech.com it was some special thing where i didn't need any adapters cause it had the right one for the orinoco, its actually 5db not 8. But i still don't understand how an external antenna is worse then my internal dell card

http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/re05u.php

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It's because that ant is a pice of crap.
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thank you for your informative post
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thank you for your informative post
Barry is giving it to you straight. It's a piece of crap.

Read the Cheap Antenna FAQ for more info.
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Hey, has anyone mentioned that antenna is a piece of CRAP!
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Hey, has anyone mentioned that antenna is a piece of CRAP!
No-one said CRAP but Barry said it was crap. Let me add that it's CRAP
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No-one said CRAP but Barry said it was crap. Let me add that it's CRAP
So, to reiterate, you're saying that this antenna is crap? [regis]Is that your final answer? [/regis]
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I've got the orinoco gold card, and a 8db antenna, and when i have it connected and net stumbler running, i will get some AP, but if i disable that and enable my internal dell wifi card, i pick up more AP's then with the orinoco and the antenna? Is there a setting I need to change or something?
The antenna itself is ok (as long as you keep it dry), the coax is what really sucks on that one. It's looks like rg-174 which is terrible, and I have no idea why they use it other than maybe those mini connectors are the only ones available for it. Even crap rg-58 is light years better.

For anything more than a foot, you want lmr195 or better. Less than a foot, the rg174 should be ok if you dont add any connectors to it.

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