jmaxxz Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I opened up my FON the other day and noticed it had a solder point for another antenna. and I have another antenna sitting around from a bricked netgear mr814 bg router. Is there any advantage to soldering in this 2nd antenna? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I don't know what the spec is for the second antenna port. I know that my Ubiquity PCMCIA card has two antenna ports but one is classed at the primary one and is higher power than the other. So, adding a better antenna should help but if you are adding it to a lower powered port then it may end up being the same as the installed one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmaxxz Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 I don't know what the spec is for the second antenna port. I know that my Ubiquity PCMCIA card has two antenna ports but one is classed at the primary one and is higher power than the other. So, adding a better antenna should help but if you are adding it to a lower powered port then it may end up being the same as the installed one. I would be keeping the orginal antenna where it is and just soldering my new one into the free slot. I was talking with one of my electrical engineering friends and he figures it can hurt. I also did some research into MIMO (mixed input mixed output) and it seems more antenna's are a good thing so I think I will give it a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infolookup Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Post some pics and let us know how it works out for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHainer Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 there has been people doing that http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/LaFon..._Second-Antenna heres the url Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmaxxz Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 I put the extra antenna on today, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprise with how much it helped. I get 4-5 times the range. And my signal strength at point blank range has also seen a nice increase! Here are some pictures from my endeavor. Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the soldering job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmaxxz Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 Here is more detailed look at what I did (but not that detailed) http://jmaxxz.com/index.php?option=com_con...ticle&id=57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord C Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Sick mod. wd! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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