More than likely you just need a pcie card. They have antennas on them
that are much more powerful than the tiny little antennas that are built
into the USB dongles. I've got a dongle that won't pick on the access
point at the other end of my house even though my laptop and a computer
with a PCIe card pick them up fine.
Brian Cluff
On 08/10/2017 04:17 PM, Michael wrote:
> I was speaking with my father about this and he said that I probably
> need to update my drivers. Being on Linux means my drivers are updated
> everytimeI update the computer I think. He then said that sometimes
> they work and sometimes they don't and the same thing goes for the
> cards. So I need to ask what cards have people had success with?
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I changed on goals and they think it's appears to have made it
> better. What do you mean by put to sleep
>
> On Aug 8, 2017 11:19 AM, "Stephen Partington"
> <cryptworks@gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> If there is an issue with the dongle or your system trying to
> put the USB chain to sleep.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Do you think the problem could be the dongle? Would
> getting a wireless card resolve the problem?
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I went to cnn.com <http://cnn.com> with no problems to
> repoport
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Michael
> <bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> no I didn't have to do that. this is a private
> residence with a non business network
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Brien Dieterle
> <briend@gmail.com <mailto:briend@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Do you have to click agree on a sign in page
> when using guest? Try going to a url like
> CNN.com and see if that brings up the captive
> portal sign on page.
>
> On Aug 6, 2017 5:30 PM, "Michael"
> <bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> I moved into a new place which offers free
> wifi (I'm renting a room). I have my wifi
> dongle plugged in and sometimes wifi works
> and sometimes it doesn't. Could it be
> something with Linux because the woman who
> owns the house says wifi works fine for
> her. I am on a guest account.
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