[omegahack]

Is there even such a thing? I really need one so I can actually use my wireless connection...

And pick up the neighbors wireless connection .

[Tomster]

No external antenna for the internal card without some serious hacking. However, you can use an Orinoco card in the PC card slot hooked up to an antenna.

[omegahack]

do you need to do any weird stuff to get the orinoco card to work? like install some crazy driver that shuts off the airport for good or something?

[Tomster]

Don't think so. Lucent/wavelan/orinoco (same company - just a series of mergers/spinoffs) made the card for the graphite base station. And the old airport cards were basically the same card without the antenna part. So as for drivers, you are alright. Think you have to add it as a new device under network settings, but that should be the extent of it. As for the antenna, remove the plug on the side of the card, and plug the thing in. www.hyperlinktech.com has some good stuff, but you need to buy $100 worth of stuff. ebay would be your best bet for a single antenna.

[amazing]

Originally posted by omegahack:
do you need to do any weird stuff to get the orinoco card to work? like install some crazy driver that shuts off the airport for good or something?

If you've still got the graphite, then it would be more cost-effective to replace the graphite. I had a graphite with my Ti-400 and the reception was so bad I couldn't get decent reception in my living room 25 feet down the hall. So, I added a Lucent Range Extender antenna ($70) to the graphite, which didn't help but 5 feet (the main problem was with the Titanium 400...which Apple supposedly improved in later models, maybe??)

Anyway, I got an SMC Barricade, and reception improved enormously because the Barricade has external antennas. Most Mac publications admitted that 3rd party WAPs with external antennas had about a 20% greater range than the snow or the graphite with their internal antennas. What really made my airport range was getting a Cisco Aironet card. Areas where the Ti had no reception, I now have full reception with no loss of bandwidth!

You can find the 802.11b base stations for $20-$30 on sale at places like CompUSA . That's cheaper than an antenna! And, I presume you've re-seated the airport card and pushed the antenna plug all the way in??

[dweeks]

I use this Sony card on my 800 TiBook, and love it.

<http://mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=674>

[dgbatchelor]

Originally posted by omegahack:
And pick up the neighbors wireless connection .

Maybe you just need to talk your neighbor into getting a better base station