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    Intel 5300 into a Inspiron 1720

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jdugan4859, Mar 18, 2011.

  1. jdugan4859

    jdugan4859 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a 1720 and got a 5300 wifi card for it. I was wondering if anyone knows where to hook up the antenna wires. I the stock Dell card only had 2 wires, and the 5300 has 3, but there are a couple extra wires tucked away, and I would assume I could use one of those on this card.

    Anyone have an experience with this?
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    In general, any of the wires should work.

    In theory, there should be a grey wire the same length as the main white and black WIFI wires, and that grey wire should be the third antenna. The last two should be for the WWAN, and should be a of a (slightly?) different length.
     
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    As stated above, the grey wire will be the 3rd antennae. Intel cards usually have a colored coded arrow to where each wire attaches.
     
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    Everything goes in the same way it came out, but with gray wire in the middle.

    I will take these speeds, over wifi.

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