Internal Laptop WIFI card antenna?

thehomeofDob

Is there a way I can attatch some sort of antenna or booster to my internal wireless card? I'm fairly sure I can, I just don't know what exactly to get.

Here're the two connections on the card itself, the black and grey cables, and then the connector.





Any links would be appreciated.

BaconZombie

I think this is what you are looking for:







[HTML]http://www.hackaday.com/2006/06/07/laptop-external-antenna-mod/[/HTML]

bushy...

I have one of those pigtails , free to good home if you post finished pics here. 'Twas wrong type for me , pm an address and i'll post it on

thehomeofDob

I'm not sure where I can mount it externally? Is that what your looking for, pics of it mounted?

PM'ing

BaconZombie

bushy... wrote:

I have one of those pigtails , free to good home if you post finished pics here. 'Twas wrong type for me , pm an address and i'll post it on

Bushy:

I take the pigtails if it's still available?

sicruise

The arial is usually a coil around the display casing... increase the number of coils maybe

thehomeofDob

Hey guys, I'm back! Thanks to Bushy I have a u.fl to SMA cable. I've picked out the antenna I want, but I've run into a snag. The SMA I have is the normal one... ah la..



However, the antenna I want to get (and all the other ones in maplins) seem to be R-SMA.

Linky.

So my SMA will screw into it, but they're both female, in that there's no pins in either. Maplins have no adaptors, and I can't find one online. Help!

BaconZombie

thehomeofDob wrote:

Hey guys, I'm back! Thanks to Bushy I have a u.fl to SMA cable. I've picked out the antenna I want, but I've run into a snag. The SMA I have is the normal one... ah la..



However, the antenna I want to get (and all the other ones in maplins) seem to be R-SMA.

Linky.

So my SMA will screw into it, but they're both female, in that there's no pins in either. Maplins have no adaptors, and I can't find one online. Help!

http://www.blackbox.com/

mayhem#

IMHO it would make more sense to look at this:
http://www.wimo.de/download/nb-2400datasheet.pdf

E.

bushy...

You can get antennas with "normal" connectors , meanwhile ( far from ideal but....) you could put a pin in one side , something like the gold pin from the back of a stud type ear ring.
I'll go digging in the pile of doom for one of the other types .

BaconZombie

BOFH_139 wrote:

http://www.blackbox.com/

Also Peats have then...., they will tell you they don't but then to check I know there any a min. of 10 of them in stock