Recommendation of PCI card or USB adaptor for 802.11

[Jason Hecker]

I think that cards like the DWL-520 need something a bit better than the 
little rubber ducky it comes with.  An antenna mounted at the back of your PC 
like it is is hardly ideal, being massively shielded by the case I wouldn't 
expect too much performance from it.  If you can, and this goes for PCMCIA 
cards jammed in the back of PC's, get an aerial that can be mounted on the 
top of the case or up on the wall behind the PC.  The oooold Lucent Wavelan's 
came with a patch antenna on an extension cord with drill mounts and sticky 
pads to give you a few options to mount the thing.  You'll get much better 
results this way.

> Hmm, I own a couple of those cards, and also an orinoco silver - and the
> orinoco card seems to have better range and signal reliability. I have
> noticed that when I use the d-link card in my laptop that it is more
> finicky about where I use it.
>
> cheers, Anthony