Jimbo312

Believe i got my antenna wire installed. i soldered the wire back to the metal piece i got out of my studio screen , put some black tape on it to keep it from making a rattle noise and i placed it right by my optical drive. All i need now i think is a new wireless card to test it on and hopefully the optical drive won't cause any interferance with my antenna.

would it make a difference if i put the wire back onto the metal piece i took out of the studio screen or would the wire be ok by itself?

I wondered if not putting the antenna in the screen would make a big difference because the m14x screen looks a lot harder to take apart than my studio. i knew you could use just two wires on the 1103 but if i was to do that i minus well get the 1102 because that would make them the same speed.

I just go done taking my wire out of my studio and boy what a job. ive taken many desktops apart but this is my first laptop to completely take apart. I powered it back on and everything still works as it should so now maybe to the next step of putting it in the m14x if i get brave enough.

Opened up my laptop yesterday to look at the wires. It only has 2 so i guess if i upgrade i will have to stick with the 1102. My Dell Studio has the third wire so i guess them mixed up.

guess i can try it out. hate to put $65 into it and it not work. It says on ebay that i could send it back if i payed shipping so it may not would be so bad to try. what do you think?

Im using the base wireless card. the intel wifi link 1000 i think it is. that particular wireless card uses 2 antennas. I believe it has 3 wires with one being unused in the laptop but don't know for sure to what or if it leads to anything.

When purchasing my m14x I didn't include the killer n 1103 and now i kinda wish i would have. My question is does all of the m14x laptops in the us include 3 antennas or just 2. If it has 3 then I could buy the 1103 but if not i will have to order the 1102 in order to get a better card. I have asked this same question on the alienware arena forums, the notebook review forums, and dell via chat and nobody could give me an answer. Dell told me that i shouldve added it in upon order and avoided my question like they didn't want to answer because i would be ordering the card through someone else. what are your comments? thanks