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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:52:09PM -0400, Ian Meyer wrote:
> Good day everyone. I just got an AIrport card for my Powerbook (a 15" 
> one, so its regular old 802.11b) and was wondering if someone would be 
> interested in helping me out with something. I would like to build a 
> cantenna, but don't want to go it alone if theres someone here that 
> knows a bit about it and wouldn't mind helping me out. Not only would I 
> have to get the cantenna, but also rig up a way to connect to the 
> Airport card inside the Ti, although I have an idea about that.

I've never built a cantenna, so you're out of luck there, but I did add
a Lucent range extender antenna to my graphite Airport. There's a little
plastic cap on the end of the Lucent Silver card in the graphite
Airport, which matches the adapter on the end of the cable that comes
with the Lucent antenna. I'm not sure about how the Apple-branded
Airport cards work, as mine is internal to my Pismo I've never taken it
out. Of course, these are now sold by Agere, not Lucent, so YMMV. And
the snow Airport is all enclosed in metal, so YMMV there, too.

 http://devices.planet-wireless.de/reant/
 http://www.innaloo.net/~wattsg/cheapomni/

There are literally hundreds of detailed sites available, though, so
you shouldn't have any problem. I'm too far from my office to bother
with a cantenna; my immediate problem was the metal roof that sits
between the upstairs room in the house where I keep my box, and the
den downstairs where I like to hack sometimes. I eventually ended up
running catV from upstairs to the den, and setting up another Airport
down there to get full coverage throughout the house. 

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