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    broken plug on wifi card

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by atobe, Jun 28, 2011.

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    hey all i just picked up a 633ANHWM which is basicly the intel 6300 to replace my artheros b/g wifi card. I bought it on craigslist my fualt for not checking out before taking it. But one of the antenna plug on the card is missing/broken off. Can i just plug it into the TR3 slot instead ? Since my laptop only has 2 antenna to begin with anyways. Does it require the antennas to be plugged into TR1 and TR2 to work ?
     
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    You have nothing to loose, do you?
    I've seem mixed results with the way antennas were connected- ranging from no difference at all to significant difference.
    It won't do any hard- that's for sure so it's safe to test it.

    Use inSSIDer to check signal strength with second antenna connected to the middle connector and with it disconnected completely.
     
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    yeah you're right i will try, once the half bracket gets there. I was just thinking that the TR2 is for 2.4ghz ant while the TR3 is the 5ghz one. i did the see the test on 2 ant vs 3 ant wasn't too much of a difference. Thanks
     
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    TR3 isn't for 5GHz exclusively as 6300 is capable of 450mbps on 2.4GHz band too- for which is needs 3 antennas.
     
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    ok so i installed it.. loaded the drivers it gets detected from windows which lists it in device manager. But there's a "!" next to it and it saids "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" so i installed the intel software and it doesn't even detect it. It saids no intel network adapter present. Is this a hardware problem ? the card's broken ?
     
    atobe, Jun 30, 2011
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