I am interested in buying a wireless router for at home,but i work out of town and need to access the internet away from home.There are no really good signals that i can connect to at my job.
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Will the 802.11b wireless notebook card increase my chances of picking up a wireless signal away from home?3 comments to Will the 802.11b wireless notebook card increase my chances of picking up a wireless signal away from home? |
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If you buy a wireless router for your home, it will only work on your home, not away from it.
If your notebook doesn’t have one already built into it, if you buy a wireless card for the notebook, it will increase the chances of you finding an internet connection. But it doesn’t guarantee that you will.
BTW, if you buy something, make sure it’s 802.11g.
Your wireless router won’t have any form of range that you’re looking for. The most you’ll get out of it is probably your front yard.
You might want to look into getting something like an aircard which works off of cell phone towers. Verizon and Sprint sell them. The biggest problem with those is that there’s a monthly fee. Goto the nearest Verizon and Sprint store to determine pricing and coverage to find out if an aircard is right for you.
First of all 802.11b is the old standard for wireless networking, operating at 11Mbps.
The industry mainstream standard is 802.11g which operates at 54Mbps, with the emerging 802.11n standard emerging at 108Mbps.
If you want increase your chances of picking up a signal, not just any notebook wireless card will work. You will need something with an external antenna. The easiest option would be a Hawking card http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=19&FamID=33&ProdID=219 . If you need extreme long range, ,search ebay with the keywords “802.11g wardriving” or “802.11g wardriving kit”, these will give you results with long range antennas that sure to pick up the weakest of signals.
I would also recommend getting a wifi finder (aka. wireless finder, hotspot finder, wireless locator). There are various finders out there made by Linksys, Kensington, Belkin. A cheap solution, if you do not have any kind of wireless on your laptop, is http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=201992266 , this serves as a hotspot finder as well as a network notebook card. The main purpose of the wifi finder is to navigate yourself to find the strongest, unsecured network.