{"id":2543,"date":"2021-06-11T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:43:52","slug":"how-to-add-external-antenna-to-any-wireless-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/2021\/06\/11\/how-to-add-external-antenna-to-any-wireless-device\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add external antenna to any wireless device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YVnevh78q_Q?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you have a wireless device and it doesn&#8217;t always perform like it should, it connects sporadically or not at all, then perhaps its little internal antenna doesn&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/f4\/df\/71\/f4df7144a08052f68b3ff615259e04e0.jpg?resize=840%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can add a bigger, powerful and serious external antenna.<br \/>\nSo all you need is an antenna and an extension cable. And a little skill.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/56\/44\/ef\/5644ef67a59569ffd3639954f2a6bfef.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have an antenna you recovered from an old router or something like that, that&#8217;s good. Or you can buy a new one. These wireless antennas usually use SMA connectors. It&#8217;s always a good idea to recover RF cables and connectors from scrapped devices, but the downside is that in time you&#8217;ll end up with a pile of junk, like I do. The upside is that you can easily start a new project and it doesn&#8217;t cost you a lot of money. It&#8217;s a matter of hobby and passion.<\/p>\n<p>Check the PCB for the internal antenna. You must cut the trace to it and solder the coaxial extension. The center wire. The shield goes to ground.<br \/>\nBe aware that this is generally irreversible and if it doesn\u2019t work, your WiFi will be dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/20\/92\/ee\/2092ee56d61d5e42678f959ad3aa48d2.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/20\/92\/ee\/2092ee56d61d5e42678f959ad3aa48d2.jpg?resize=840%2C1120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"1120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/89\/7c\/3f\/897c3f3b0a0b29a82072f25e9f8694a9.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/89\/7c\/3f\/897c3f3b0a0b29a82072f25e9f8694a9.jpg?resize=840%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/69\/91\/f0\/6991f0bbdd51f9456620c38ecce78482.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/69\/91\/f0\/6991f0bbdd51f9456620c38ecce78482.jpg?resize=840%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It usually works, and your device will connect faster and will function more reliably.<br \/>\nOr it will just work, when previously, it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>This technique is particularly useful if your WiFi device is enclosed in a metallic box.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/66\/d4\/4a\/66d44afed44a63696e9c3304b3f57509.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff If you have a wireless device and it doesn&#8217;t always perform like it should, it connects sporadically or not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racov.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/feat.jpg?fit=700%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75FkB-F1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racov.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}