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    technical question about wireless antenna's in laptops

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by eurbert, Feb 11, 2011.

  1. eurbert

    eurbert Newbie

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    hi all,
    I wanted to clean the fans on my laptop so I opened it up. After I had put it back together, I noticed my wifi was slower then before (about half of what it used to be). And in some angles it has better reception then others. I went to check where my wifi on my laptop came from. I found a mini pci card which has two wires connected to it. I assume these are used as antenna's. Is it possible that I broke one of the wires and hereby making the connection only go half as fast as before? Or do the 2 wires work as a closed circuit?

    plz help I don't know anything about this. Thanks!
     
    eurbert, Feb 11, 2011
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    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    The two wires should be separate antennae. Make sure while disassembling your laptop that they connections didn't get jiggled out of contact. Happened to me on my own laptop. I was wondering why I could only hit 150mbps.
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Feb 12, 2011
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    I already checked the connections but they were good. I'll order a pair of antenna's and will try to replace them. Thanks a lot for your help!!

    ps: I can only hit 5mbps now :(
     
    eurbert, Feb 12, 2011
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