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|  [Wi-Fi] A new wireless card for my Toshiba notebook?
I currently have a Toshiba A105-s2091 notebook that I got few weeks ago from Best Buy. I found out the wireless signal wasn't good as expect like others have IntelPro wireless card. I wonder if this is possible that I plug a IntelPro card inside of my Toshiba notebook then works as expect?
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| If your toshiba has a Mini-PCI slot (most notebooks with internal wireless do), then you can upgrade to essentially any mini-PCI wireless card you like, so long as its antenna matches the connector on the card.
There's really no major store where you can get a big variety, however, »www.newegg.com has a few, and eBay is always another place where you can get one. Currently, the Senao-based one is my favorite, but it's only 802.11b. There's a 400mW Atheros based one, but I don't have specifics on it.
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Bobcat
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How are you measuring the signal such that you can say it "wasn't good as expect[ed]"? Why would you expect another card to work better?
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| Hello Bobcat,
I actually paired with other notebooks all together. The one from my friend was getting better signal with IntelPro and mind got only "1" bar which wasn't IntelPro.
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yazdzik
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In my experience, there are two factors, the card and the antenna.
Almost all external cards seem to get better signal. Unless there is an overwhelming reason to use an internal pci card, I would avoid them. (I use one because I would lose my own nose were it not on my face....)
While drivers for prism cards are still an issue, even for windows users , driver issues are mostly related to dropping signal.
On the other hand, one can set certain things such as s/n ratio rejection and so forth via the driver's programming, although I suspect this is not as easy in windows as entering cli parameters as it is in linux.
Before buying another mini pci card, I would swap one with a friend, to make sure it is not the antenna.
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Before you swap cards, you should be aware that Toshiba (and some other manufacturers) put in dirty tricks in the BIOS and/or hard wired in the mini-PCI connector so that only their own OEM cards will work. For example, I was helping a friend with an older Satellite that had the mini-PCI slot and the antenna built in. The only available card for wireless for that model was an older OEM Toshiba card that only does 802.11b. In order to put in a 802.11g card, it was necessary to tape over a couple of the connector fingers on the card, and to give up on the ability to turn the card on and off with the switch on the side of the laptop. Toshiba deliberately "miswired" 2 pins on the connector to disable non Toshiba cards. Google was very helpful in finding the trick--I would never have figured it out. |
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