External antenna for notebook

[Trotter]

My daughter's lappy works great, but it sometimes drops signal. I'm using a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, so I know I have good signal.

I'm looking for an external antenna for her lappy, but I can't find what I want. I need just an antenna. Not a bulky something, but one that can just pop into one of the USB ports or the i.LINK port to give the onboard antenna some help. I don't need a wireless adapter.

The only antennas I can find screw into something. Her antenna is internal.

So, anyone know of something like that?

 

[Law]

I don't think something like that exist, the antenna would have to be part of the wireless card in order for it to work. There are USB wireless adaptor that plugs into a USB port and provide wireless connection just like a regular wireless card. But an extenstion antenna that plugs into a USB or firewire port is not likely to happen.

 

[Law]

Your best bet would be a USB wireless adaptor like these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

If you think her build-in wireless adaptor isn't sufficient enough you can always disable it in device manager and install a good USB adaptor.

 

[havock]

Another solution would be to get some gain antennae for the WRT.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002F3G7M/102-6996145-6786543?v=glance&n=172282

 

[Trotter]

I'll look into those antenna, havok.

Could the positioning of my router be messing with the signal? My wife has it sitting on top of her computer inside of a cabinet (doors open, of course). Would its proximity to the computer mess with the signal, or the cabinet? I had thought about moving it to the top of the cabinet next to the modem.