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I have a Lucent Orinoco Silver 802.11b card - one of the first generation
cards with the jack for an external antenna. Someone gave me a Belkin
F5D69000 External Desktop Antenna.

1) Is it work trying to make these two work together?

Will I see any improvement?

Does this design make sense?

In my house I have no issues...and in general I have no issues when "on the
road" - but I was thinking more for when I travel, hotels, conferences,
wardriving, etc. This is purely a geek driven exercise / activity to get
the most out of the stuff I have.


2) If it's worth it - I still need a pigtail to connect these two. Does
anyone have a good source?

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That should read " Is it * worth * trying to make these two work together?"

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"Jim Orfanakos" <jim@-nospam-orfanakos.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Lucent Orinoco Silver 802.11b card - one of the first generation
>cards with the jack for an external antenna. Someone gave me a Belkin
>F5D69000 External Desktop Antenna.
>
> 1) Is it work trying to make these two work together?
>
> Will I see any improvement?
>
> Does this design make sense?
>
> In my house I have no issues...and in general I have no issues when "on
> the road" - but I was thinking more for when I travel, hotels,
> conferences, wardriving, etc. This is purely a geek driven exercise /
> activity to get the most out of the stuff I have.
>
>
> 2) If it's worth it - I still need a pigtail to connect these two. Does
> anyone have a good source?
>
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> To reply via e-mail, remove the "-nospam-" from the reply to address
>

 

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"Jim Orfanakos" <jim@-nospam-orfanakos.com> wrote:

>I have a Lucent Orinoco Silver 802.11b card - one of the first generation
>cards with the jack for an external antenna. Someone gave me a Belkin
>F5D69000 External Desktop Antenna.
\ I use the same card, but the gold version.
>1) Is it work trying to make these two work together?
Can't speak for that antenna but do use two other brands on my card.
>Will I see any improvement?
If you use a high gain antenna, yes.
>Does this design make sense?
If you need what it can do.
>In my house I have no issues...and in general I have no issues when "on the
>road" - but I was thinking more for when I travel, hotels, conferences,
>wardriving, etc. This is purely a geek driven exercise / activity to get
>the most out of the stuff I have.
Me too. I am a full time RVer. Many campgrounds are adding WIFI.
However, you do not always get a site close to the office. With a
small dish antenna (14db gain) I have gotten full strength signal from
over 1000 feet. I have also used it at hotels by parking in their lot
and aiming the antenna at the lobby. I also have a small (6db) gain
antenna that I attach to the window of the car with the laptop and a
GPS to find nets.
>
>2) If it's worth it - I still need a pigtail to connect these two. Does
>anyone have a good source?
The small antenna has a small pig tail of it's own. I had another one
made for the dish antenna. Be aware that the coax will be rather
large. This is because of line loss. The smaller cables would kill
all the gain you would get from the better antenna. The folks I
bought my equipment from was http://www.fab-corp.com/. That was about
2 years ago. I just checked and they are in business.

Hope that helps. Any questions just fire away.
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