Well sorta. It's close enought that between my errors in getting the VSWR down, and my guess at the feed type, it's probably somewhere between 6 to 8dBi gain.
well, that's what bugs me. It should work as well if not better than your PCI card (assuming identical locations). The chipset is Zydas, which works well enough with the USB dongle type of devices. No clue why it doesn't work for you.
Not specifically their incantation of the coffee can antenna. I've done some modelling:
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one incantation. I'm not thrilled but it does sorta work.
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