I did search this forum before I posted. And I have Googled it to death. I don't really understand a huge amount of wireless info. With that said please bear with me.
I work as a corporate security officer for a complex inside Atlanta. I have to use the Internet to get to my company e-mail to access forms, and e-mail check ins once an hour.
Ok, my question my laptop is a Dell it has an internal card a Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card. I am allowed to use the wireless connection that the complex provides, but my location gives me very, very little signal. The connection will connect about 50% of the time but the wireless zero bar on the toolbar will tell me it has no signal. When it does this it works ok. Always right in the middle of work it kicks me off and loses the signal. I looked at all the settings on the card and found a few different settings I think may affect the performance of it but am very apprehensive to change them.
Any suggestions?? Can I set the card up to squeeze a little more distance from it? I don’t see a jack for an antenna either. I have a slot that looks like a pcmcia slot but when I pulled the little plastic thing out of it it's missing a small postage stamp size section out of it and a normal pcmcia card will not fit.
THANK YOU ALL.