HI gang, I have discovered that there are a couple of locations in my house where the wireless network does not work well at all. Naturally, they are the locations where I most want to use my laptop. My access point is on the 2nd floor in approx. the middle of that floor. I'm trying to use the laptop on the 1st floor at one end of the house to (almost) no avail. Moving the access point to other locations in the room seems to make little difference. My house is not a mansion - I'm well within the 300 ft alleged range. My 2.4 GHz wireless phones have no problem over this particular path through the house (and yes, I turned them off in case they were causing interference). I have been looking at these add-on antennas that are available on the Internet. It appears that some are passive while others are active. Would this help, or is there some more basic solution which I've overlooked? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org