Real noob questions

Shadow · 2007-02-14T03:37:17+00:00

I live in a small rural town in the backwoods. We have phonedinternet and a wireless provider. The wireless antenna is about 800 meters away, i can see itfrom the roof of my house. From the roof to my router (I use coyote ona dial up) measures 4 meters. From what I understand I will need an antenna, cable, apigtail and a pci wireless card. So here are the questions: Antenna -- would a simple wire antenna pointed at the sourcebe adequate ? Or one of these semi-parabolic antennas ? Like these : Cable - a lot of people here use RG 58, and say that at shortdistances like 4 meters the loss is very small, 10% below a RG 213 .Is this true ? Pigtail - any secrets ? Do I need one if I use RG 58 ? PCI wireless card - is there a cheap , good, all-operatingsystem chipset, like the realtek 8029-8129 are for ethernet ? I intendto use it under linux and windows. I've browsed dozens of pages, but most just sell. Few explainanything at all. TIA

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Shadow 19 years ago

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?????. Since price is irrelevant in purchase, maybe you could post me one free ?

I did. Thank you for the Wiki links. I am studying them. Since I cannot understand your logic, I will not be accompanying this thread any longer. Bye.

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