Internal wireless cards vs External

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DrAn0

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I have a G external microsoft wireless card, it keeps getting disconnected wile downloading files, i was thinking about getting an internal G card but im not sure if it will be any better, can anyone shed some light on this situation
Thanks
 
it prolly will not be better in that it's your wireless dropping and not the connection to the computer...
 
any resolutions to that problem, its starting to piss me off lol
 
DrAn0 said:
I have a G external microsoft wireless card, it keeps getting disconnected wile downloading files, i was thinking about getting an internal G card but im not sure if it will be any better, can anyone shed some light on this situation
Thanks
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Generally, external USB wifi solutions don't have antennas that are as powerful as internal PCI cards'. You'll usually see ~1 - 1.5dbi of power out of them whereas PCI cards generally have 2dbi antennas. This may be enough of a gain for you to maintain a solid connection; if not, the other advantage to PCI cards is that they have removable/upgradable antennas.

Links:
- Hawking Technology HWU54D: the only USB solution I'd spend my money on.
- Hawking Technology hi gain antenna upgrades (6dbi - 15dbi).
- SMC directional antenna
+ basically every NIC manufacturer offers antenan upgrades or NICs with hi-gain antennas
 
Thanks for the links, ill try a decent internal seeing on how moving the router made no difference, it has full signal but suddently it will drop and disconnect out of nowhere, its lame.
 
Make sure that you aren't receiving interference from anything in the area. Microwave ovens, 2.4Ghz cordless phones, other wireless nets, etc. If you suspect other wireless networks in the area or interference, try using different channels in your access point. Also, if you haven't already I would disable SSID broadcasts, change the administration password and turn on maximum WEP on your access point to help stop any casual wardrivers, neighbors, etc. from surfing on your network/internet connection and possibly screwing with your signal.

If the OS is WinXP, open the properties for your wireless connection (Start->Control Panel->Network Connections, find your Wireless LAN Connection, right click, select Properties), click on the Authentication tab and make sure that "Enable 802.1x authentication for this network" is NOT selected. Click OK at the bottom of the window to save the changes (if any) and restart. If this was enabled this should fix your problem.
 
thanks goofball, i knew that phone might of had something to do with it, ill move it across the room... i would put it to 256 bit encryption but i dont know what a 256bit paraphrase is lol, as for broadcasting the ssid ill have to disable that as well, man alot of people from arizona in this forum lol
 
Hmm well ive moved the phone, stopped broadcasting ssid, and tried every channel from 1 to 11, still it will cut out when im downloading from newsgroups... If anyone is familiar with newsgroups i connect to 2 servers with 4 connections on each server, both servers are on the same port and i start to dl it reaches about 350 kbs then slowly trickles down, until eventually it all together shuts off and i have to restart my newsgroup program for it to work again
 
Turn off wireless zero config and use a utility from the manufacturer of the card... oh wait... it's MS? I think you might be hosed.

After the computer is started and the network up, turn off WZC from the services menu. See if your connection is more reliable.

Wireless Zero and USB devices just hate each other. I just hate wireless zero.

WHERE THE HELL IS MY IWCONFIG FOR WINDOWS!!!???
 
lol, i just went out and bought an omnidirectional attena, i was getting a signal from about 3 blocks down the road not bad for $100 =P, now i can share movies with my neighbor...

Its finally holding the connection and being very stable
 
http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=183 its similar to this one in terms of signal power, although i couldnt find the one on the website, mine is a hawkings omnidriectional that i snagged off a company that was going bankrupt which happens to be 5 minutes away from my house =P i think i got lucky with that find.
 
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