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- kenz0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@itchtye
It's spam like this that will:
1. Annoy people
2. Be useless to the topic
3. Give people the image that you think spam is a good way to channel your propaganda.
Please, if you want to get word out, find a better way than spamming the comments. - PigThief, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Ugh, this isn't just spam: it's MySpace spam. When did the MySpace-age preteens invade Digg?
- flair1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6cool, a thread from the year 2000? gotta love the oldest digg thread of all time
this was back when people had pc card orinoco wireless lan cards with external antenna plugs. Now most laptops have internel antennas and this would not work as easily. - LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Myspace spam? That deserves more than a block, but it will have to suffice.
- Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6And a lot cheaper than the one at ThinkGeek, to boot.
- arem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Old, old, old, old, OLD news.
- chembro84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Anyone have any idea what kind of range you could get with one of these?
- CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's a suggestion : Use USB wifi-adapters instead.
It's far easier to get USB extension cables and since USB use a digital signal , there is no signal loss.
With a long extension cable it will be easier to find the perfect spot to place the antennae. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yep
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's some instructions for a Primestar dish.
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I doubt you'd get 46db of gain - have you got any idea how high that is? Maybe 46 more RSSI, or a 46db boost to the recieved signal, but 46db of gain in the antenna would require a huge dish.
- Fryxell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2 I know it is not a cantenna but this alot easier to build and you can get crazy range with dishes on both ends
http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/ - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Only problem is finding cards that have a antenna connector. I use an Enterasys Roamabout. Very similar to the Orinoco Gold. The latest drivers also support WPA under both Linux and Windows. I may be wrong, but I am fairly certain the stock Windows driver does NOT support WPA.
ftp://ftp.lancom.de/AirLancer/AirLancer-11/AirLancer-PCI-11/ is where you can find WPA enabled drivers.
I don't really know of any 802.11g cards that you can hook a pigtail to. Maybe someone else does. - Niro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very, very, very old !!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Probably 3-4 miles.
- orangekid13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm working on one of these already... as in I got the idea and that link long before this post went up... so far i have a can stripped of the printing that was on it and have a badass paint job on it and a stand i have yet to attach to it.
still have to do everything else antenna related...
i'm making one the size of the chilli can used in the link - bg86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2incorrect. a parabolic dish is a parabolic dish. as long as you create your own feed and align it correctly it does not matter. The unamplified 802.11 world record is somewhere around 130 miles and they used their own feed on a big tv dish from one mountain in the desert to another.
- haveacigar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Couldnt you make one from an old satellite dish?
- syco123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you're really having problems recieveing a USB wifi card and a parabola works pretty well or look into boosting your router signal.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i made one using a wusb54g and a $2 walmart strainer. i got 46db gain.
beat that cantenna knock-off (referring to the retail version at my compusa) - darkphan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, 5 years and people are still making these?
- kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah yeah, I know it violates FCC regs. But it's in a band where all interference has to be accepted.
- kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually I prefer the pringles can antennas. I think it's because you're using a driven element along with reflectors so you get max gain in decibels. Plus it's directional as all hell.
- gaberowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish there were pigtails that you could get that were meant for the mini-pci based wifi-cards. Something where you drill a hole in the side of your computer maybe and you can plug a cable into there. Anybody know of a way to do this for a laptop?
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I-PEX to RP-SMA will do for that. But I wouldn't reccommend it if you don't know what cable to get...
- bg86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13 miles only if it's point to point. and even then you've gotta do the crazy alignment.
- ck01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe old, but if you can get 3 mile range then you've got my attention!
- jborg91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I had him a couple of years ago. Have you used it yet to find a hidden access point? Pretty cool, good times.
- GrendelT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just got around to doing this myself. I bought the N-connector with the radiator already cut and soldered from http://www.jefatech.com , since I was already paying shipping I got a pig tail for both of my wireless cards. Not a bad deal.
I got a can of Dinty More beef stew, similar to the Nally Chunk ( http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/antennas/bigchunk.html ). Ate the contents, washed, dried then tapped the hole at the appropriate place with a drill press. (5/8" bit) voila! I have my cantenna. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1proven here. sorry for the non relavent stuff there too.
http://www.dokumentamarble.com/usbWifi.html - dextermanas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here's something easier:
http://www.baslug.org/vega/index.php?p=wifi - appleIIc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Also this cantenna can be mounted to an old satellite dish from dish network or direct tv where the original LNB (the eye) can be easily removed. Position the open end of the can facing the dish face and position the can roughly in the same focal distance from the dish face as the now-removed LNB had been. This will get really amplify the signal. (I saw this originally mounted to a dish for the purposes of extending standard wifi over greater distances, even miles.)
- bg86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The pringles can antenna reflects poorly and is nearly 3 times as inferior to the Pepperidge Farm Pirouette can. It only has novelty worth because it's made from a pringles can. And everyone likes Pringles. I have the Pepperidge Farm Pirouette waveguide antenna here and it works unbelievably great. If you have trouble finding a card to slap it to, you're not looking. I'm not sure why this took so long to make it to digg. Still, violating FCC regulations with it is hard to do.
-Brian
ScrapeTorrent.com - appleIIc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1See above comment. No, because the frequency that they beam tv through space to the earth is not the same frequency your wifi uses. It may work but it is better to tailor the "LNB" or noise blocking feedhorn to the frequency to be used.
- cman1783, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have a CompUSA 802.11g (Realtek RTL 8185 chipset) desktop card which has an external RPC SMA connector which came with its own antenna that one of these would work good for. This was just clarification to the person who said finding a card with an external antenna is a problem. Cool thing is it was $20 on sale.
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- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Rename: How to violate the FCC regulations.
- Buzzbean, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I'm trying to figure out why this is news. Oh well, since it's up here, I'll throw in my nickel's worth. From what I understand, the best can you can use for a cantenna is the container for Pepperidge Farm Pirouette cookie. It's bigger than a typical can of corn or what have you and wider than a Pringles can, which, I believe is the most popular. So it's better able to pick up the wireless signals.
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