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I actually found one benefit of keeping the stock dell internal wireless card in my laptop instead of upgrading to the Intel one, the dell is compatible with OS X and intel isn't :) You'd think it would be the other way around.

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so jd you think ill be way happier with the usb one, over my shitty mini pci dell one?

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Yup.

There's even a USB flavor with external antenna provision for sale on ebay currently, I think there's a half day left on it. It's probably overkill, I doubt you're going to turn into an antenna freak, the normal one you've already found will be several times stronger than what you're working with now.

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whats the usb with the antenna hookup?? im very interested in electronic ----, the more power the better can you get me a link?

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EUB-362 va the EUB-862 units you've been looking at.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=011

Antennas are effective use of power, but there isn't actually any more power being pushed between the two models. Antennas are also big factors on how well you recieve. Prepare to pay $40-70 for a good antenna plus $15 for a pigtail adapter to mate it to your card. If you e-stalk the Quality antenna manufacturers, sometimes they sell their stuff on eBay if it's scratched for a good bit off normal sale price.

PS - www.fab-corp.com for all your pigtails, DIY stuffs, and some of the $$$ stuff as well.

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k thanks for the link jd, so basically i can use any antenna for this purpose, just need the pig tail to addapt the two ends? so this means i can have a long cable connecting the antenna to the usb device?

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I swear I didn't steal it but I got one of those range extenders from walmart, the linksys ones. Worked great, we got full signal in our house from a router in another house.

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Some antennas come with a length of low-loss cable, some don't. The adapter pigtails range from a few inches to a foot or two, IIRC. If the antenna doesn't come with a cable you're going to want to buy one because the pigtail by itself won't cut it.