Intel Centrino Advanced 6300 on a Dell E6410

I picked up the 6300 seeing the strong recommendations here but I am a little confused on hooking it up. There are options for 3 antennas and the older default card only had 2. Can someone please check if I installed it correctly?

Thanks!

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No. The black one goes to connector 2 and the middle one stays free.

 

According to the photo you posted, from left to right it goes: Black, Gray, White. See the little arrows pointing to the antennae plugs? Those are different colors to signify which color antennae wire plugs into which antenna post. If you don't have a gray wire, don't worry. As downloads said, you can leave that one free (but in the photo, you do have a gray wire tied off to the side, next to the card; you just need to remove the little plastic sleeve from the end of it and plug it into the middle slot).

 

Thanks radj and downloads. hooked up the wires and connectivity speed has doubled from 54mbps to 130 thanks a ton

 

It's still not expectational- you may get up to 300mbps connection speed with 802.11n (with a right router and 40MHz channel) so if you need more bandwidth you should look into making other adjustments (settings or hardware depending on what's slowing you donwn).

 

I thought you only get the 300mbps on the 5GHz frequency?

 

No- you can get it on both although it's easier on 5GHz since according to Wi-Fi certification rules if there is a neighboring network with overlapping signal the router must revert to 20MHz mode (meaning start using one channel instead of two). With so many networks on 2.4GHz it's relatively hard to choose a channel that would allow you to run the network in 40MHz mode (which is the only one allowing 300mbps).

Also some older Intel cards wouldn't work @ 2.4GHz in 40MHz mode at all but that was Intel's own (dumb) initiative.

 

Ah, that explains a lot. I just tried using my 2.4GHz on 40MHz and it still didn't go above 150mbps. Damn Intel.