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I guess using it at the casino would be a small gamble  but what a luxury. We only have one close by and I'm not sure about the wireless, I'll ask my wife, she works there.

Just thinking  after seeing those antennas maybe mount one on a hat and wear it around. it might give you a 3-4 decibel gain and has mobility.   

I got some information from Sprint after extending my contract for some perks. I was advanced on to others when I questioned the EVDO. The 4th person I talked to was an engineer at tech support and he answered the questions I had last week.

I just thought, if I use one line I already have for the card and the router (WRTG3G-ST) could I set up VOIP for my home phone? Hmm...

Hey Jeff,
I opened this card and inserted it into a linksys wrt54g3g-st router. It is working fine 
but was thinking of a booster antenna and maybe an amp.

My question is: would plugging the booster antenna into the routers antenna connector, via long rj 6 cable up to my roof, have impact on upload and downloads?

 

Unfortunatly the Merlin S720 doesn't have an external antenna. The only external antenna is the one on the router.

Your ISP connection is sent to the card alone and not the router. The best signal here means the most for your speed. The card plugs into the router and distributes the data to your network (each PC involved). Now if a PC is connecting through the wireless part of the router than a better antenna here shouldn't be needed unless your having problems connecting to the router or the same but because of a distance between router and PC.

If your card is not equipped with an external jack your probably out of luck in improving internet speed unless you change for a card that has one.    Remember the best signal here means the most speed out of your connection. 

   Welcome to the forum cmore2004

   Can you tell us more about your setup, what EVDO modem, external antenna being used and are you using a router for networking. I have read that some are getting slighter higher downloads than 1.2mbit and some claim .35mbit uploads.

I was expecting to make the jump to Sprint about 4 weeks ago but a local store manager was making delivery a problem with the Linksys WRT54G3G-ST router. 

Now I'm again looking into it but will probably order from the 3G store. I have to admit though I didn't do this much research making the jump to the DW4000 from my PCI modem one-way when it came out. I thought about it for a couple of weeks and signed up. And I'm still using my dish labeled DirecPC.   

So I would like to know the Pro's    and Con's  if you have anything to tell.

So kol, are you using any external antenna's? Besides the onboard one. 

Gladly.

I'm using a PX-500 with a -84dBm average signal strength. I don't use a router, I use Windows XP Internet Connection Sharing.

A quick overview of my network:
2x WRT54G routers in a WDS configuration.
Host ICS computer connected wirelessly
2x Wireless Laptops
1x Wired Desktop connected directly to a WRT54G
1x DW6000 directly connected to WRT54G
Network 172.16.1.0/24

With my Windows machines, I typically see speeds around 800kbit-1.2mbit download. Upload usually at least 400kbit, sometimes as high as 800kbit. Upload seems to use some sort of compression, but by doing a timed upload I can verify speeds of at least 400kbit.

Right now my laptop is running Windows Vista Ultimate and I've removed Fedora Core 6 (which produced the best results with the link I provided--those were the default settings and I used BBR's tweak test to see what they were).