I have had trouble in the past picking up WiFi signals with my laptop when I travel. My Dell laptop did not have wireless when I bought it and I added a wireless card to the only card slot. My new Toshiba has internal wireless and an open card slot. The Toshiba is much beter than the Dell on picking up signals but could still use help. Some motels don't have a good signal in many of the rooms.

Last summer I was talking to a guy at a Motel in Pueblo. I was outside my room on the hood of Green checking e-mail as I was not able to in my room. He recomended that I try a WAR Driving Kit. Said to get the Orinoco Gold and stay away from the Silver units that were up graded to Gold.

I was looking on the net and found this for $60. Thing is the picture shows a card that needs to go into a card slot.

My Dell dose not have an open slot. Does anyone know if this WAR card is to replace my LinkSys wireless card? If so I'd guees that I would need to turn my internall wireless off on my Toshiba when I used it.

Anyone used The WAR Kit before? How good is it? I'd really like something to help out both laptops as I carry the Dell as a back up these days. And I still use it for mapping.

Christmas is comming up and I'm making up my list early this year.

 

I got a buddy that drives truck and stops by every once in awhile, he has a card simalar to what you are looking at and his was the wifi reciever, I had to go in and turn off the PCMIA slot and it worked great. He got it for the same reason, it isn't as easy as you think to get a full frame Western Star and 53' trailer in a motel parking lot to check your e-mail lol

 

This is where Flip is King! He might know!

 

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Hey where's my post? I typed a whole paragraph a couple days ago? Any way Curtis and I use aircards on a daily basis, several times a day. It is not as high speed, but not too bad. as long as you have cell signal it works fine. Big pages with lots of picturse can take awhile. Over all I like it.

 

its sometimes fast enough to watch video links, if you have good signal, its faster than dialup, but still not near as fast as dsl or cable

 

Yup. I surely would like to have that. But that cost each and every month what the WAR Driving does out right ($60). Just not ready to speed that kind of $$'s yet. Maybe next year when my cell phone contract runs out but not really sure as they have been talking about doing away with analog signals and that is mostly what I get out in Colorado and Utah. We'll just have to see next year if they push back the date to stop all analog signal or not and what happens.

I would just like to have use of WIFI in my motel room and not have to go outside when I travel.

 

shutting of the analog signals is just around the corner, I been busy replacing cellular backups in the bank alarms recently. I tell ya, them people seem to put things off just as late as humanly possible.