External antennas and PC Card wirelesss NICs

Feb 04, 2005 4 Replies

Interesting question re a pre-N card with external antenna connector -- doesn't pre-N MIMO work on the principle of having multiple internal radios ? So wouldn't such a card need, say, three external connectors? (not likely to happen in a PC Card format!)

-- Paul

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Looking for a new WPA-ready PC Card wireless NIC for 802.11g, a card with an external antenna(s) or which supports them. A 'pre-N' card would be preferred, as would a card which uses less CPU than others.



It's for use in a Fujitsu subnotebook, the Lifebook P1032, runing XP Spack



  1. Its primary use will be away from hotspots in remote areas, for disaster relief work, and will be attached to a coffee-can waveguide or Yagi antenna for extra range. The existing Linksys WPC54G works OK, but has no external antenna jack, so I will move that card to another notebook which will stay close to home.

Your on-topic assistance is appreciated.



Thank you kindly.


-- John Bartley K7AAY

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The bottom of your message Whats this mean? - It's illegal to read it ??? This post quad-ROT-13 encrypted; reading it violates the DMCA. rm -rf /bin/laden && newfs -m 99 /dev/iraq (Douglas Palmer)

why on earth would an honest man have Bin/Laden as a directory structure.?

I've got a similar need, and while I haven't tried it yet, I just found a Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A card that sort of fits:

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There's room if they use the same size connector as my Sierra Wireless GPRS card uses.

-- John Bartley K7AAY

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post quad-ROT-13 encrypted; reading it violates the DMCA. rm -rf /bin/laden && newfs -m 99 /dev/iraq (Douglas Palmer)

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