SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492024-03-18T23:36:42-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsCustomer #846990 on Hacking your WiFi CardCustomer #846990urn:uuid:81258334-66a3-6976-28fa-04866e7437802016-09-24T03:37:31-06:00<p>hmmmmmm sounds good i will try to apply these to boost my <a href="http://www.acom.pk/laptop.html">Laptop</a> wifi speed. My Laptop is Elitebook and the wifi card mostly hangs may be when its heat up then it do such malfunctioning. But now i will try that to boost it.</p>
Customer #528941 on Hacking your WiFi CardCustomer #528941urn:uuid:70fef8c5-775a-5174-7eaa-f411e9b74c1e2014-03-09T05:55:56-06:00<p>Wow. I found the u.fl to rp-sma adapter for $1 shipped on ebay. I am totally going to try this! Thank you for posting this! Literally going to cost me $1 to increase my internal wifi signal significantly. I used to have to use an external dongle to get good reception...not anymore! This will also be amazing for pen-testing, as it's hard to get wifi dongles to work for these purpouses.</p>
JakeR on Hacking your WiFi CardJakeRurn:uuid:a2fd8d29-ff32-d67e-a836-9963030680ff2013-05-25T06:44:11-06:00<p>Now all you need is a 2.4GHz yagi antenna and you can grab Starbucks's free internet without leaving the expressway.<p>Also, I'm assume "increasingly harder" means that it is not only becoming harder or increasingly hard but both. Thus it is becoming harder not linearly as harder would suppose, but actually quadratically. I can buy that.</p></p>
diz on Hacking your WiFi Carddizurn:uuid:fe249035-bdef-45b0-7842-4ebb623fbb112013-05-24T09:44:51-06:00<p>Nice hack, but it's FAR from "sleek looking".</p>
Spokehedz on Hacking your WiFi CardSpokehedzurn:uuid:5ab27871-6b97-bfd5-cde1-cf0e2cbeb4ce2013-05-23T21:45:36-06:00<p>Most laptops have a crappy patch/fractal antenna behind the LCD. This sucks for two reasons. 1. The antenna wire is LONG and the signals degrade unless you have high quality shielding. and 2. They use the thinnest wire with the worst shielding ever. Honestly I am amazed that WiFi works at all... Your antenna wire looks LIGHT YEARS ahead of the thin stuff that Apple used. I would not be suprised if the wire helped more to boost the signal than the external antenna did.<p>Good looking Mod though. Now, be a good boy and mod the other side in so you can have the diversity antennas again.</p></p>
Paul Smith on Hacking your WiFi CardPaul Smithurn:uuid:39080994-08cb-b6c2-e1b8-453b68e1941e2013-05-23T16:59:23-06:00<p>I think he meant it exactly like he wrote it. He's always walking around flinging sticks of old RAM into the wall like ninja stars.</p>
Far_Seeker on Hacking your WiFi CardFar_Seekerurn:uuid:4fb66bca-68c1-d186-0c9b-422d1167af3b2013-05-23T11:59:52-06:00<p>Perhaps it's just me but, I would change one word of the following sentence in order to unequivocally agree with it.<blockquote>
<p>I am of the belief that we have a right to do whatever we choose with the products we buy as consumers.</p>
</blockquote><p>I'd change it to read as follows</p><blockquote>
<p>I am of the belief that we have a right to do whatever we choose <strong>to</strong> the products we buy as consumers.</p>
</blockquote><p>This is because there are a lot of things you could do with a product that most people would agree you don't normally have any right to do, for instance bashing a random stranger over the head with it. ;)</p></p>
Karl Bielefeldt on Hacking your WiFi CardKarl Bielefeldturn:uuid:29a9d845-70d1-6833-faa4-4687f95dce1e2013-05-23T11:54:24-06:00<p>Maybe the resale value is reduced from the original model with a working internal antenna, but I doubt it's reduced compared to one with a broken antenna.<p>Anyway, people in our line of work tend to run our laptops into the ground, because we can work around individual component failures. In college I ran a laptop off of a Linux live CD for months, because I couldn't afford to replace a busted hard drive.</p></p>
scharkalvin on Hacking your WiFi Cardscharkalvinurn:uuid:9088a15f-7a95-0033-e4a6-c7f8ce520d1b2013-05-23T11:36:06-06:00<p>I haven't ever sold any of my old computers either .... I give them away. I usually donate outdated (for me) computers on freecycle after wiping the HD clean and installing the latest flavor of 'buntu. (If I have a LEGAL copy of widowdoze that works on the machine I will re-install that). I'm in the process right now of burning in a cleanup on my old R60 thinkpad to donate to a needy teenager.</p>
Joel_E_B on Hacking your WiFi CardJoel_E_Burn:uuid:dc12dec2-f5c3-dc34-1579-d610d66989262013-05-23T11:09:31-06:00<p>Yes, the resale value is reduced considerably with a mod such as this, but Earlz is correct in his assumption. Considering this one was used when I purchased it, I don't intend on selling it anytime soon if ever.</p>
Earlz on Hacking your WiFi CardEarlzurn:uuid:923716db-de89-f69e-2793-ba95bda65c982013-05-23T10:50:15-06:00<p>@RyeMac Maybe he's like me an never really sells his computers later. I still have my first computer from 2002. I have yet to sell any of my computers. The closest thing to it I've done is give away 3 computers(which I had received for free at some earlier point) because I didn't want to deal with it when moving across the country</p>
RyeMAC3 on Hacking your WiFi CardRyeMAC3urn:uuid:39670cf7-0517-f12d-1353-559b5d04ccb42013-05-23T10:09:35-06:00<p>Me personally, I've never been a big fan of non-reversible hacks. What if you wanted to sell it later on. A non-reversible hack might lower the resale value. In any case, 50 points for the cool use of ingenuity!</p>
Melt-O-Tronic on Hacking your WiFi CardMelt-O-Tronicurn:uuid:dd6b2006-4c54-e3b2-a195-2900de5a87ef2013-05-23T09:35:58-06:00<p>Bravo! Why didn't I think of that??? This is a truly useful tip!</p>