laptop mini pci alternative antennae?
I've got several laptops with internal mini-PCI wifi cards (various brands).
I'm wondering if anyone's made some sort of switcher that'd allow selecting between the internal antenna and on attached externally? I realize this would be a hack, to say the least, since the plastics on most laptops aren't setup to allow adding something like this. But given that the gauge of coax used is so eff'ing tiny it's not something I'd want to cobble together myself.
It'd be useful in situations where connectivity is found to be marginal using the internal, so plugging in an external alternative might help. But for the vast majority of other situations it'd be burdensome to have to use the external antenna all the time. Not to mention other things needing to use the PCMCIA slots.
Anything like that out there?
-Bill Kearney
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Bill Kearney in Wireless Networking
