Re: usb adapter cantenna

bjs555 <aaa@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like to build a cantenna that uses a usb adapter as the active
> element so that I can avoid the problem of losses in a long run of
> coax cable and just use cat5 instead. But I haven't been able to find

Are you talking about a game adapter at the end of cat 5, or a USB dongle
at the end of USB cable? cat 5 can go a lot farther. The USB should go 5
meters without an active repeater.

A friend was using a 6" diameter coffee can, which I found to have lower
gain than the 4" diameter two coffee can setup, but the larger can was
easier to point at an access point about two blocks away.

Bob Alston's coffee can
http://members.cox.net/tulsaalstons/Computer.htm
Clarence Dold's coffee can
http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/usb-can/im000742-800x600.jpg
I used the turnpoint calculator to decide where to poke the hole.
http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

There are also many haphazard designs on the New Zealand page, using USB
dongles. http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

Using a "standard" USB adapter, instead of the dongles, is on David
Taylor's site. http://www.nodomainname.co.uk/cantenna3/cantenna3.htm

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