I have a small shop roughly about 300 feet away from my house. Right now I am paying 2 internet bills per month, one for the little work shop, and one for home. I want to cut the cost of internet in half as each one runs $78 + tax per month.
My house is old and pretty transparent to radio signals and currently I can get internet from my shop, or visa versa. I was planning on buying 4 PCI cards for all my computers, but at the last moment I decided to skip out on them from a tight budget. It's a good thing I did. I have 4 8800GTS video cards in there which I knew were going to be quite noisy, and they were. So I ordered some HR-03's along with them and installed them on all the cards. Wow is all I an say afterwards. They cover all but 1 PCI slot, which I need for the sound cards as I am not going to use the crappy onboard stuff.
Now my old Lucent silvers PCMCIA with a cheapo attached antenna can reach just fine, but it uses a cardbus adapter, which has to go. So networking can only be done now for my plan only via USB. I have a older netgear USB adapter which I must say... flat out sucks. It is one of them cheap thumb sized adapters (the most common), and the performance inside the house with the router less then 20' away gets a weak signal. It see's countless other wireless networks. But can not connect to any of them, even with a test bed of my neighbor less then 30 feet away building to building.
Now as said, that netgear adapter is old, a 802.11a. What are the ranges of newer USB wireless adapters? Someone told me they go quite far now, but I seen and believe that they all suck and if you want any kind of signal strength you have to go internal PCI. Or was this finally broken and I can pick up a $59 USB thumb adapter and get the signal strength?
My house is old and pretty transparent to radio signals and currently I can get internet from my shop, or visa versa. I was planning on buying 4 PCI cards for all my computers, but at the last moment I decided to skip out on them from a tight budget. It's a good thing I did. I have 4 8800GTS video cards in there which I knew were going to be quite noisy, and they were. So I ordered some HR-03's along with them and installed them on all the cards. Wow is all I an say afterwards. They cover all but 1 PCI slot, which I need for the sound cards as I am not going to use the crappy onboard stuff.
Now my old Lucent silvers PCMCIA with a cheapo attached antenna can reach just fine, but it uses a cardbus adapter, which has to go. So networking can only be done now for my plan only via USB. I have a older netgear USB adapter which I must say... flat out sucks. It is one of them cheap thumb sized adapters (the most common), and the performance inside the house with the router less then 20' away gets a weak signal. It see's countless other wireless networks. But can not connect to any of them, even with a test bed of my neighbor less then 30 feet away building to building.
Now as said, that netgear adapter is old, a 802.11a. What are the ranges of newer USB wireless adapters? Someone told me they go quite far now, but I seen and believe that they all suck and if you want any kind of signal strength you have to go internal PCI. Or was this finally broken and I can pick up a $59 USB thumb adapter and get the signal strength?
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