Internal Wireless Cards?

Is there a way that I can connect an external antenna to my Laptop that
has an internal wireless card?

Thanks in advance for the help

-Joey

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Is there a way that I can connect an external antenna to my Laptop that
> has an internal wireless card?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help

No.

> > Is there a way that I can connect an external antenna to my Laptop that
> > has an internal wireless card?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the help
>
> No.

Yes

Open the cover for the wireless card, find the connector for the
internal antenna and make a fly lead out to an external connector.

Sure, it's not going to be easy and if you're after better gain,
personally I'd stick with the internal one for day to day use and get
either a USB or a PCMCIA card with an external antenna connector, it's
much easier and it'll work.

David.

On 13 Dec 2005 22:51:31 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Is there a way that I can connect an external antenna to my Laptop that
>has an internal wireless card?

Maybe. If your unspecified wireless card in your unspecified laptop
has a mini-PCI card that has two Hirose u-FL connectors going to the
antenna(s), then you can purchase a u-FL to whatever pigtail and
attach an external antenna. You'll probably need to drill a notch in
the laptop case to route the coax cable out of the case. See:
http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=55
http://www.verilan.com/store/product...roductid=16254
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/PigTail
for cables or search Google for:
"u-fl pigtail"
The connectors are very fragile and do not tolerate many insertions
and removals. They are also not very tolerant to pulling, twisting,
tugging, or any kind of movement, which will surely happen with an
external antenna. If this is an old laptop, you might consider a u-FL
to SMA pigtail and mount the SMA to the laptop case somewhere. The
SMA can handle the strain.

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