[MLB-WIRELESS] Diamond Home-Free wireless.

[lrich at ruralnet.net.au]

Have you got one Tony?  Can you take a pic for the rest of us to see?  If 
it looks good I might buy some!


Quoting Tony Langdon <tlangdon at atctraining.com.au>:

> Thats the big stumbling block, no ext ant.  If someone can get into one
> with
> a dig cam and post for the group to see, theres enough loons with a
> soldering iron here to say yay or nay to getting them wired.  As for a
> driver I dont care, I want them in windoze for my app, but how about
> approaching Jean T or other genious types to ask them how hard it is to
> compile something like that?!  Look at the reviews for these things
> (like on
> the ebay pages for them) and youll see theyre slow as a wet weak, but
> for
> the price woohoo!  From the pics Ive seen it may be hard to wire an ant,
> but
> Ive not seen inside them. 
>  
> Looks like I might have to test my soldering skills. :)  I have worked
> on
> some _really_ small surface mount gear, so the challenge of a couple of
> wireless cards sounds good. :)
>  
> As long as I can find a point where's there's RF with 50 ohms impedance
> and
> enough space to fit a small bit of solder, I think we're in with a
> chance.
> :) 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Jacob Rothfield <mailto:gwizz at email.com>  
> To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
> <mailto:melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>  
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Diamond Home-Free wireless.
> 
> Its a bit hard to tell but right next to each other I find I get about
> the
> max, so the strongest signal is the fastest and then the further you get
> away from each other the slower it goes. 
> You have to remember they are very cheap cards. They could be quite
> valuable
> if we can find a way to hook on an ext. ant, I haven't been able to get
> them
> working in Linux 
>   
>   
> 
> Joel Moerkerk wrote: 
> 
> 
> jacob, how do u find them speed wise? i have two..Joel  
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jacob  <mailto:gwizz at email.com> Rothfield
> To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
> <mailto:melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org> 
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Diamond Home-Free wireless.
>  lol thats my auction. 
> I bought a couple of these from the US to play around with.. The range
> isn't
> very good but if we could hack on an ext. ant they're very cheap to buy
> which is a huge plus. 
>   
>   
> 
> Luke wrote: 
> 
> 
> On the same topic, looking at the pic of the card it looks near
> impossible 
> to mod for an external ant, if the rectangular gold bit is a wafer ant??
> 
> Anyone? 
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1289080541>
> &item=1289080541 
> 
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