The fisrt major wireless network cards on the market were produced by Lucent. Most famous are the Orinoco silver and Gold cards. Now made by agere. They rock. The're only 30 mW not the more modern 100 mW cards. They havea great client utiltiy, work well with netstumbler. Their performace can be enhanced by an external anntenna.<br />
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EXAMPLE. My laptop with a cheap and nasty 5 db rubber duck anntenna outperformed an Ateros mini PCI card with a 15 db annntenna on it. About a mile from an access point with a 15 db anntenna my laptop worked the Ateros didn't. I had 20db above noise.