Hi all,
I bought a linksys wmp54g card from wal mart. It seemed to work fine at first, but when I moved the computer from the room that the router is in, it started reporting very low signal levels and dropping the connection. In the same room as my computer is my wife's computer, also wireless. It's using a belkin card of some sort, and it just about never drops the connection. It also consistently reports a signal strength of fair or higher.
The ironic thing is that the piece of crap card had this huge antenna on the back. It looked like it might be designed to actually do something, but that did not turn out to be the case. It was apparently the equivalent of hooking a rooftop antenna to a defective crystal radio set from 1903 and attempting to communicate with aliens approximately half a universe away.
So, what's a reliable wireless card? I need something that will be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Anything that's retarded and generates spurious disconnects need not apply.
I bought a linksys wmp54g card from wal mart. It seemed to work fine at first, but when I moved the computer from the room that the router is in, it started reporting very low signal levels and dropping the connection. In the same room as my computer is my wife's computer, also wireless. It's using a belkin card of some sort, and it just about never drops the connection. It also consistently reports a signal strength of fair or higher.
The ironic thing is that the piece of crap card had this huge antenna on the back. It looked like it might be designed to actually do something, but that did not turn out to be the case. It was apparently the equivalent of hooking a rooftop antenna to a defective crystal radio set from 1903 and attempting to communicate with aliens approximately half a universe away.
So, what's a reliable wireless card? I need something that will be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Anything that's retarded and generates spurious disconnects need not apply.