[Westwales] online supplier for wireless nic?

David Goodwin westwales at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Oct 2 08:45:00 2002


Gareth Bowker wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 19:15, David Goodwin wrote:
> 
>>To configure the thing, you need windows (unfortunately), but once 
>>configured it runs fine on it's own. It has a reasonable range, however 
>>it doesn't appear to be possible to attach an external aerial to it, so 
>>for this reason i would not recommend it to anyone (Duncan said 
>>something about it not being possible to attach aerials to any netgear 
>>wireless stuff(?)).
> 
> 
> Yes and no. It's true you can't attach a "standard" external aerial,
> I've seen a project that opened the ME102 up and attached a Pringles can
> antenna to it. If you've got a steady hand for soldering, you can do it,
> but it'll be expensive if you make a mistake. I can dig out the URL for
> you if you're interested...
> 
> Gareth
> 

Yes, I would be :)

I thougth that it might be pretty hard. Apparently Andrew is quite good 
at soldering, so i'll possibly have to offer him some beer.

David.