- Jan 6, 2002
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always had a crap of a time getting a decent signal from my neighbors router, he doesn't care if I borrow his internet, but the connections I got were shaky, sometimes it would stay connected for days, sometimes I couldn't connect for days. And it seemed stuck on "very low" strength.
Today I bought this Parkervision Adapter I saw at Best Buy, never heard of the company before. the claims on the back of the box made me laugh, but with the return policy I didn't have anything to loose. It was pricey @ 80 bucks. Also it seems to be only 802.11b (they do make a G version though) I don't care about bandwidth as I'll never even saturate a B connection. My signal has been very good / good all day, I ran a ping -n 1000 yahoo.com and only got 3 lost packets. with my D-Link it could be as low as 10, typically 18% though. Without some type of High Gain antenna setup I didn't think anything would give me a steady connection. This Parkervision thing is pretty impressive, it has no visable antenna, yet it boosts my signal way over with my D-Link external USB (with the lil' antenna) or my Buffalo WLI2-USB-G54 could do.
Today I bought this Parkervision Adapter I saw at Best Buy, never heard of the company before. the claims on the back of the box made me laugh, but with the return policy I didn't have anything to loose. It was pricey @ 80 bucks. Also it seems to be only 802.11b (they do make a G version though) I don't care about bandwidth as I'll never even saturate a B connection. My signal has been very good / good all day, I ran a ping -n 1000 yahoo.com and only got 3 lost packets. with my D-Link it could be as low as 10, typically 18% though. Without some type of High Gain antenna setup I didn't think anything would give me a steady connection. This Parkervision thing is pretty impressive, it has no visable antenna, yet it boosts my signal way over with my D-Link external USB (with the lil' antenna) or my Buffalo WLI2-USB-G54 could do.
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