Dell E6500 antennas

Hello,

i have a following question:

I'm going to order Dell E6500 with WiFi 5100 and no WWAN card. 5100 uses two antennas. Later, I'm going to buy WiFi 5300 and Dell 5530 3g card. 5300 uses 3 antennas, 5530 - 2.

Question: do all E6500's have all 5 required antenas installed all the time, or do they only get installed if you order cards requiring them?

Question 2: if all 5 are present all the time, which ones connect to which? From what I saw, there are white, black, gray, gray-black and blue antennas present. White and Black are connected to 5100.

Thanks for any help!

 

I'm using Dell Vostro 1400 and it already has 5 antennas.
So I guess newer model should already has it..
white,gray and black are used for wi-fi -> TR1, TR3, TR2 in Intel 5300
while for wwan antennas, I think it doesn't matter which cable go to where.
since I used it other way around and the wwan works fine

 

Thanks, this helps a lot!

One more question: what slot size does it have? for wlan and for wwan? full or half?

 

and one more thought: now that I think about it, wlan needs up to 3 antennas, wwan up to 2, and one more needed for bluetooth? isn't blue one used for bluetooth then? or is BT antennaless?

 

seeing dell service manual for E6500,
for wifi it's half height and for WWAN it's full height
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/late6500/en/sm/html/index.htm

no antenna for bluetooth

 

hm, are you sure? according to:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/late6500/en/sm/html/wpan.htm#wp1180318

the blue antenna is for bt/wpan/uwb card.. :|

and looking at Dell 370 / 410 cards, they do have mini-coax connector for antenna..

 

Oh I see, then if the blue cable is on WPAN side,
shouldn't you have 2 cables on WWAN side?
then it would have 6 antenna cables