wireless ant

Ive been reading about swapping out the cisco adapter in the cf-28 . my 28 has the cisco adapter with the whip ant , the one that is built into the lid. my question is if i swap out the cisco card with the Engenius Senao 600mW EMP-8602+S 802.11abg mini pci card, can i just connect the whip ant back to the new card or do i have to replace with duel ant or somthing .


thanks a lot, im new to toughbooks so any help is appreciated


steve

 

I am not sure but you will probably need to remove the antenna connector at the pass through and then get a couple of flag antennas . You can use one at the bump on the left and solder the other one to the pass through. I believe that the antenna connectors are different.

 

What biggamehunter said is correct
Its different,so remove the coax at the passthrough and solder a new coax +connecter
You can use the standard antenna for it but for best performance add another antenna


Alex

 

There are many, many posts about this very thing. ... And some pretty cool suggestions!

First you need to make sure that your whip antenna is actually going to your wifi. Some do not... Some lead to an internal, old style, cell wireless with the wifi antenna being behind a bumpout behind the LAN connection.

 

Thanks for the responses guys. got my engenius 600mw card ordered and a pair of flag antenna's . I took your advise and did some searching on these forums and found some great pics of where to put 1 flag antenna(left side little panel) , but no pics of spot for 2nd ant , i assumed the right side matching panel , but it has a lan port there. Is that the bump out you mentioned btw ?. anyway have many had good results from just using the one flag ant ?


thanks again for all the help

steve


p.s i also did a forum search for cooling/fan since i cant seem to find any active cooling (fans or fan ports) do cf-28 run passive cooling only ?

 

Steve... You really need to read your user's guide it will answer quite a lot and probably even answer a few things you will not see discussed here.

The Fully Rugged models have no fan. They use a heat pipe.

 

In addition; the whole body of the unit is its cooling system thats why it is not adviceable to scrape or repaint the body or Lid of the unit other than silver color(special coating, formulated by expert) as it will gonna loose its ability to absorb heat specially on direct sunlight or extreme heat condition. Otherwise you will see soon Mr. BSOD, Lol


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