Re: [Netstumbler] card question.

["The Captain" <thecaptain101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have both a gold & silver 802.11b card. Both cards work perfectly with 
NetStumbler. On one machine I use Windows 2000, on the other Windows 98 
second edition. I have also used Windows XP very successfully. Both cards 
accept an external antenna. You need to pry off a small plastic cover to get 
to the connector. An internal antenna is also on the card. The silver has 
64-bit encryption, gold has 128-bit. I personally see no difference between 
the gold & silver, they use the same drivers, same interface to NetStumbler. 
I use 64-bit encryption (and mac address filtering), fine for my purpose.

The receive sensitivity is excellent on these cards. There is only one 
slight issue one could fault with this card, it transmits at 30 milliwatts. 
That power is quite typical, but, there are a few manufacturers with 200 mw 
transmitters. I recently picked up an SMC2532W-B. It also has a connector 
for an external antenna, though different type of connector than Orinoco 
cards. Click below if you want to read more about it.

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=products_show_datasheet&productCode=SMC2532W-B

In the small amount of testing, I can't get the current version of 
NetStumbler to work properly with this SMC card. Some tables, 
http://seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison think it contains 
the Prism 2.5 chipset, which, I believe NetStumbler supports. NS has just 
seen 1 AP in my testing, even though several were around.

A little off topic, but still Orinoco & NetStumbler related--A short time 
ago, I went War Sailing, with my Orinoco card. The following link will show 
207 access points I located inside of Marina del Rey (California). It shows 
a map, my setup and has a couple files you can download,

http://www.catalina42.org/war-sail/

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Norm Perron

Hi all.

I'm looking at purchasing a wifi card for my laptop. I would like to get one 
that is capable of using an external antenna, and is capable of possibly 
using future technologies. I saw in the netstumbler readme that an orinoco 
is compatible, yet today when i was looking at them the newer gold combo 
cards had no antenna connection, and an "older" orinico 802.11 card had an 
antenna connection, but only had 64 bit encryption. could someone help, 
please? I am looking for a good card that works and will work in future. 
Would having 128 bit security really matter? Are there other cards that 
would be better overall and fit all bills? Another issue would be that I am 
using a compaq evo n410c laptop, whose multiport 802.11 card does not work. 
Any way to modify or adjust to use that?

Thanks so much

Daniel

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