How to connect an antenna to laptop

In the process of using a laptop, it is often about to improve the quality of the Internet to connect an antenna to it, which will strengthen the signal Wi-Fi. To do this, it can be used as a finished purchased antenna and made with your own hands.

The solid version of the antenna installation involves disassembling the laptop housing in order to find a radioup in it. There is no need to disassemble the laptop, it will be quite enough to remove the lid at the bottom. After that, we find and remove the video card ( Wi-Fi module).

Wi-Fi module hastwo regular antennas are the main and secondary. They are connected using wiring: black and gray, which are connected accordingly to Main and AUX connectors. As a rule, regular antennas in the laptop are located in the monitor lid, near the webcam.To connect an external antenna, we can use one of the connectors (preferably "AUX") or both connector and connect two external antennas - this option will be significantly productive.

For the actual antenna connection, we will need a special adapter for the Wi-Fi module and corresponding to the external antenna selected by us. Gently disconnect the standard antenna (or both) and with the help of an adapter we produce our connection. In this way, almost any kind of external antennas can be connected - both homemade and production powerful directed.

After connecting, we put the cover back. If you plan to use such a type of antenna constantly, you will have to make laid in the lid of your laptop so that you should not exercise the wire constantly or to embed the connectors into the laptop housing.

There is also a very simple temporary way. It lies in the fact that the ends of the antenna cable are fixed on the surface of the laptop in the estimated location of the standard antenna, that is, in the webcam area. You can fix them with the help of glue, clamps, scotch. For the most favorable and accurate location of the cable ends, use the Network Stumbler program: when you run the program, moving the wiring laptop housing and monitor the quality and strength of the signal. Finding the optimal position, fix the ends of the cable.

With such simple ways without unnecessary costs at home, it is possible to independently install the antenna to a laptop, thereby amplifying the signal and the speed of the Internet.