The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Laptop antennae mix-and-match - good or bad?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by pbo, Dec 4, 2009.

  1. pbo

    pbo Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    When uninstalling an 5300 wifi card from the laptop (it was a Chinese engineering sample, and didn't work that well) I accidentally broke off the head of the white antenna wire. So, I was wondering if it's really necessary to follow the white/gray/black combination as indicated on the card? I don't really see any difference between the wires - except for colors - so can I, say, use the blue/black wire instead of the white one? I don't really have need for that wire, so it's pretty much hanging in there doing nothing.
     
    pbo, Dec 4, 2009
    #1
  2. hanming

    hanming Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    11
    Messages:
    397
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Actually the antennas are the same. You can switch them.. I tested it and it still worked :)
     
    hanming, Dec 4, 2009
    #2
  3. pbo

    pbo Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Oh, good, thanks. That's pretty much what I thought - but still wanted to make sure :)
     
    pbo, Dec 4, 2009
    #3