[CoLoCo] good laptop wifi for weak signals?

[Andrew]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wardriving-Kits-28dBm-802-11g-WIFI-USB-Card-Long-Range_W0QQitemZ110257590578QQihZ001QQcategoryZ61818QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1713.m153.l1262

don't know much about it, but looks neat and says it's Linux compatible.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> At the TIE conference last year they had free wifi set up but had the power
> turned down so it couldn't be connected to from the hotel rooms (didn't want
> to compete with the $10 a day rip off site I guess). I could almost get
> connected but invariably it failed before I could do much. I'm thinking a
> stronger antenna on my laptop would do the trick. Does anyone know of a
> Linux friendly pc card or usb type wifi card with a high gain antenna? Cheap
> is great. Works with Linux a must. Also easily available from amazon,
> newegg, etc or locally would be great.
>
> Thanks.
>
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