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. I will compare signal strengths using Puppy and the five
> cardbus cards vs the aironet.

16-bit PCMCIA:

Linksys v 3 (orinoco) 
Cisco Aironet 340 (30 mW)

Cardbus:

Gigafast B (not working in XP, not found by Puppy)
Netwave B (known working in 2K)
D-Link Airplus DWL-650+ B

D-Link Airplus Xtreme G DWL-G650  (two of these, one seems dead -
XP finds it but says it has problems)
Belkin Wireless G

Tested with XP, 2/3 of the time there was no connection but, with the 
wireless router 20' away around the corner, sometimes the Aironet got a 
3/5, sometimes the Belkin and 650+ got 5/5, sometimes the G650 got 1/5.
Did not test the Netwave (I was given it with a 2K laptop, working)

Puppy signal strength

        router in same room (5')                other end of house (20')
                                                through walls

Orinoco    --                                   --
(card does not provide this info)

Airo 340   100/100                              52/100

Netwave    0                                    0
(Received but was not sending signals.  Works fine in 2K).

Airplus 650+    100                             69
Airplus G650    52/100                          48/100

Best at getting weaker signal:

Airplus 650+ (B, cardbus)  79% (?) of weak signal
Aironet 340 second best    53% of weak signal
Belkin (G, cardbus)        48% of weak signal
Airplus G650 (G, cardbus)  40% of weak signal

Orinoco will not pick up a weak signal found by Aironet 340.

The Aironet 350 might beat them all.
I would still like to get the 650+ and the others to work.
Plus might mean greater signal range.

Sindi