Topic: Cumby Guts: Wi-Fi / Why Failed you decide.

I am 30ft from a access point. No cheapy, our company depends on it wifi, so we have well tuned ciscos.  My laptop and iPhone are very happy with the signal quality.

But the chumby barely receives a signal.

It get 3 bars when i stand outside my office door office and it is literally line of site!

In my office it gets one and won't always connect.

I've used the external USB socket. I've put the dongle on the wall above the other hardware using a usb extension cable and still flakey.

Is there a better card that works without me rebuilding the Kernel?

This is pretty nuts to be this close to a high end access point and not get a good signal.

Give me some pointers to make this something useful to me.

Re: Cumby Guts: Wi-Fi / Why Failed you decide.

Found an external antenna.  Now it works well.  2 or 3 bars now.

Re: Cumby Guts: Wi-Fi / Why Failed you decide.

Here are links to the wifi antenna.
Both same, except one is a 2.5" lead the other has a 9" lead.

http://www.halted.com/commerce/catalog/ … t_id=24191
http://www.halted.com/commerce/catalog/ … t_id=24192