Nifty! Any before - after comparisons?

Awsome mod

is that antenna a 2dbi whip? also do you have one internal antenna connected with the external?

Vinhtvu2 wrote:

carbinefreak wrote:

is that antenna a 2dbi whip? also do you have one internal antenna connected with the external?

It is a 2dbi antenna... I didn't want a giant 7dbi one hanging from the side of a tiny laptop... so I opted for a small one... it is plenty though.

The 5008 card actually have 3 antenna connection... so two internal and one external is how I'm doing it.
The card came with three internal antenna that looks a LOT better than the stock one in the Eee... so I think I'll add two of them in behind the LCD screen, and solder the stock antenna to my bluetooth chip.

Any improvement with the other antennas's? curious as i was wanting to improve  the range and thought that i might get those too along with the external antenna if it they helped.

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u need a bigger antenna to make it look geeky.

Go for a decent 12db omni, its >50cm  in length. And yeah get a foxtail too! 

and why not add flame design airbrush?

Last edited by AlphaCentauri (2009-01-06 6:02:03 am)

Is there any way to get a female pigtail installed and then just use a male-to-male adapter for the antenna?

I wouldn't mind installing a mod like this, but I don't want a male antenna adapter sticking out of my Eee.

Last edited by Ex (2009-01-08 12:47:48 am)

Vinhtvu2 wrote:

It's not THAT big... plus it looks cool when you screw it in... people are like... wtf!?
I chose to install it there where it's a little more noticeable... but if you would like, you can actually drill a BIG hole in the back of the Eee... then put a male connector in there...
The hole has to be actually bigger than the connector... and it can recess enough where you wont even see it. Because most antenna are designed to bend and about 1 inch length at 90 degree, you can actually plug it into the hole and screw it in, then it wont even be noticable.
If I wasn't rushing the job and trying to get it done and think it through, that's what I would've done....

But I like the antenna on the side of the Eee like I have it now though.... it looks ultra-geeky.......

So is the answer to my question no? And if so, why not? Do they not make male-male and female-female adapters?

One could run it like this:

|
| <--antenna
|
L---|---|---|------------[wireless card]
.......^...^....^
.......1....2.....3


1. male-male adapter EXTERNAL
2. female-female adapter INTERNAL
3. male pigtail INTERNAL

The male pigtail would go into the adapter that is female on both sides, which would be recessed in the kensington lock. Then one would screw an adapter that is male on both sides into the female end of the antenna, and into the female adapter you have recessed into the 900HA.

It sure would be easier if they just made the pigtails female and the antennas male, though (and seem to make much more sense).

Last edited by Ex (2009-01-08 1:22:55 pm)

Vinhtvu2 wrote:

There wouldn't be enough room......... Unless you can get a pigtail to femail..... which I'm pretty sure they dont make.... then you'll have to get a male antenna.......
or leave the male to male adapter on the antenna... cuz thehre was BARELY enough room to squeeze the adapter out..... maybe there are smaller one, but the one I got sit a little tight under the motherboard already... and the female adapter is always bigger than the male..............

You're right, there's not enough room.

I suppose if you're going to carry around an external antenna, you might as well just plug it into the USB slot.

Vinhtvu2 wrote:

Without the antenna, using the Atheros Wifi Management with the new 5008 card, I get about 55db, 100% signal about 10 feet from the router.
With the antenna, it goes up to 63-65db, still 100% signal

I'm not familiar with the software you are using to show the signal, but USUALLY the signal value is such that the LOWER the value the stronger the signal received.  Technically, it's not "lower", since these are negative values, so -55dBm is a (much) stronger signal than -65dBm, but ... here, take a look at this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm

These are VERY low power levels, otherwise, you'd fry your brain walking around these things, you know.

Ex wrote:

I'm pretty sure you are completely mistaken.

Look for yourself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm

P.S.  As I wrote, these are not "lower" actually, since they are negative values, and lower negative (closer to 0) is greater than larger negative (farther from 0).  At least, it used to be that way back in 3rd grade.  Has it changed since 1933?

Last edited by 40th Floor (2009-01-08 10:16:55 pm)

@Ex: Do your math!!

For positive numbers the further away from zero the larger their value.
For negative numbers the further away from zero the lower their value!!

-79 is further away from zero than -55.

Hence -55dBm higher value/stronger signal than -79dBm, as pointed out above by thoatt.