Any ideas on how to boost a marginal reception for a Laptop with a wireless lid antenna receiving from a standard D-Link G Router. It is an internal antenna in the lid of the laptop. I have suggested to the person that he make some type of a simple reflective antenna to focus the signal but he seems to be resistant to this . Any ideas or recommendations ?
Boost Reception for a Remote Laptop
May 01, 2007
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On 30 Apr 2007 20:44:47 -0700, " snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com" wrote in :
Improve the antenna on the D-Link wireless router.
" snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com" hath wroth:
- Add external pigtail to MiniPCI card inside laptop. Attach external antenna.
- PCMCIA adapter with an external antenna connector. Attach a biquad, panel, dish, can, yagi, or whatever, via a pigtail
- USB wireless adapter with some kind of reflector or attached antenna.
- Wireless ethernet bridge or game adapter. Plugs into ethernet port on laptop. Attach external antenna via pigtail. Requires power to ethernet bridge so this might be a bit messy.
The DLink should have a simple reflector added. You don't mention where the reluctance lies, but I wouldn't be interested in adding a reflector or external antenna to my inbuilt WiFi.
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