Replacing back of card antennae with an external one?

Eyam

Eyam

Eyam

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Hi,

I'm entirely limited to wi-fi, powerplugs & cables are not an option.

There's a fair distance ... 30 feet & 2 brick walls between the wi-fi router & my PC, plus of course my wi-fi card in the PC sits at floor level with the body of the PC tower in between it's antenna & the router.

The result is poor connection.

For a couple of years I've solved that, more or less, using an external TP link USB wi-fi device. That's got it's own little peccadillos though (software bugs, general bad behaviour).

I'm wondering if it's possible, for my PC purchase, to stick inside it the best wi-fi card I can find, then get around the difficulties caused by the location of the PC by using an external antenna.

I've seen a few of them for sale at various places.

The plan would be to remove the antenna or antennae on the back of the wi-fi card & attach a cable from an external antenna. The external cable would then go in a nice position on top of the desk.

Do any of you do this, is this possible? Can anyone suggest a good antenna compatible with a TP wi-fi card. The TP Link card I'm looking at for inside the machine is this one :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-057-TP&groupid=46&catid=1597

simply beacuse of the reviews it's got.

Can anyone suggest a better internal card?

Thanks.
 
I know you ruled out Powerplugs and Cables. I am just curious why? Since I would have thought they would be the wisest solution.
 
There's nothing to stop you adding having the antennas on extensions.

According to their website they're using RP-SMA connectors. If you Google 'RP-SMA extension' or 'RP-SMA antenna' you should something suitable. Due to the distance and the walls stick to 2.4GHz and buy antennas to suit.

Personally I'd stick to using an USB adapter on the end of an extension cable long enough to get it up into clean air.
 
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