<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br>Mo Awkati wrote:<br>> Hi Folk<br>> <br>> It turned out to be the network card rather than Ubuntu not doing what<br>> it was supposed to do :-)<br><br>Good news :)<br><br>> I have acquired (given to me :-) ) and installed a Belkin desktop<br>> wireless PCI card. It seems OK, but the signal strength is poor: about<br>> 50% most of the time . The card is wireless G while the router is N. I<br>> think that has something to do with it. There is a distance of only<br>> about 8 feet between the pc and the router, and no obstructions other<br>> than myself!!<br><br>>My parents have one of those Belkin PCI 54G cards, an
F5D7001. The<br>>reception was awful. I replaced it with a £12 one made by Edimax (it was<br>>sold by Efficient PC who sold Linux compatible hardware but have since<br>>closed down) and the reception was 90% or so compared to 30% with the<br>>Belkin. In my case the router was 54G too, it's the card itself which<br>>was poor and under Windows you had to be an administrator to use it,<br>>which I thought was stupid.<br><br>>Regards,<br><br>.Adam Sweet<br><br>- --<br><br>Ah that explains it. I thought the person that gave it me was using it at quite a distance from the router; they also used windows. I will get a new one perhaps tomorrow and see what happens.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mo<br><br><br></div></div>
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