Upgrade inspiron 5100 antenna

Well I have an inspiron 5100 with the stock internal antenna, before you all say i should get an external antenna i cant so its up to upgrading the antenna inside. I want to because my friends inspiron 8600 with a intel 2200 wireless card picks up more wireless signals than me. I have a emp-8602+ 600 mw minipci. I think it is because the antenna in the 5100 arnt very long. The main one is 4.5 inchs and the aux is 10 inchs. they stay in the base of the laptop and do not go around the monitor. SO! I already http://cgi.ebay.com/Pair-Internal-A...ryZ31531QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
have access to those. (They are 98 cm and 78 cm) Would those offer better signal reception if i wired them in my laptop. Now what setup would be best for that? Both in the screen and looped around the compouter to use up all the wire? Or one end in screen and one end at the farest part of the base away from taht. I have no qualms about taking apart the LCD. Also i noticed that the grounding pcb circuit board on those seem to do only 2.4 ghz frequency but my currecnt inspiron 5100 antennas can do 5 ghz (wireless a) So would i be better off with longer wires that i resolder onto the inspiron 5100 grounding green things? or should i keep the stock ones that come on the longer wires.
2.8 p4
512 mb
7500 ati
windows xp home.
What do you guys think?

 

my friend has an inspriron 5100. Its a thick system, so you should be able to snake teh antenna through their pretty easily.

An antenna is simply a wire. It connects to the wireless cards, and is then usually taped to the inside of the screen somewhere.
You can install a longer cable, but I do not know how much that will help.
You could always just get the same wireless card your friend has, and then install that in your laptop.

K-TRON

 

Therotically though in all cases my card is better, more txpower and rxpower. So it should be better. His antenna goes all the way around though

 

Have you guys thought about using an external USB card with flexibility to attach an external antenna?

Check out our USB laptop kits for 802.11b/g USB 2.0 stick + cable extension with magnetic base + High gain antenna.

This will give you the flexibility of positioning the antenna 3-5 feet (1 - 1.5m) away from the laptop.

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