Fitting a new wi-fi card into a Dell Studio laptop, antenna advice needed please.

broona · 28 Dec 2009 at 18:52

Getting a Wireless N router, and looking to upgrade the onboard Wireless G card currently in my laptop, so ordered an Intel 5300 card from Ebay.

My current card has 2 antenna wires attached to it, but the 5300 can have 3 attached to it, is the wire I've highlighted in the following picture my 3rd antenna wire? Cheers in advance.

coupe69 · 28 Dec 2009 at 19:16

broona · 28 Dec 2009 at 21:23

coupe69 said:
Yes

Cool, assumed it couldn't be that simple, nice to know that it is!

broona · 9 Jan 2010 at 00:14

Card arrived today, but I'm having problems getting it up and running now!

Card installed fine, connected the 3 antennae, (does it make any difference which order I connect them in?), booted into Windows 7, automatically installed drivers, unable to connect to network!

Tried Microsoft, Intel, and Dell drivers with varying degrees of annoyance, some give a Code 10 error, some show no card installed, some show the card but can't connect to the network, not good!

Anyone got any ideas please?

coupe69 · 10 Jan 2010 at 15:25

What wireless router do you have? I know there is some issues with the Intel wireless N cards and some Belkin Routers. Have you updated your router to the latest firmware?

broona · 10 Jan 2010 at 16:53

I'm using an Edimax EW-7416APN v2.0a 802.11n Wireless Access Point, not tried updating it yet, but that's the next step, cheers for the reply.