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Computers & Hardware => Networking => Topic started by: snadge on June 15, 2012, 10:06:29 PM

Title: laptop only has 1 Antennal wire?
Post by: snadge on June 15, 2012, 10:06:29 PM

My sisters new Acer Aspire 5733 only has 1 wire/antenna on the card (which has 2 ports) - it only connects at 65Mbps on Wireless N (upto 130Mbps) and 135Mbps on upto 270Mbps channel bonding

does having 1 ariel affect range>?

i find it odd, its the first time ive seen just 1 ariel..? even our 6 yr old acer wireless G laptop has 2 ariels?

have they missed one out during manufacturing?

Title: Re: laptop only has 1 Antennal wire?
Post by: kitz on June 15, 2012, 10:54:01 PM

Have a look at this thread about the same laptop and its wifi throughput speeds.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/networking-wireless/652631-aspire-5733z-wifi-throughput.html#

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The adapter should give you 150mbps with only one antenna. You will not be able to attain 300mbps unless you add a second antenna which is a bit more complicated.

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It's hard to achieve decent 802.11g speeds with one antenna let alone 802.11n ones.
If you want to see any improvement in signal quality and throughput you should install second antenna (which is not really a straightforward task as it requires quite a bit of laptop disassembling) and to achieve any decent throughput (above 150mbps) you need to upgrade your Wi-Fi card.

Title: Re: laptop only has 1 Antennal wire?
Post by: snadge on June 16, 2012, 12:33:51 AM

thanks kitz....its shocking that, its a great laptop too.. Core-i3 380M 2.5Ghz / 4Gb 1333Mhz RAM / 320Gb Hard-drive / W7 64-bit

ive got latest version of driver