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Hello and thank you in advance for any advice
I've built a few Wifi antennas in hopes of drawing in a signal from a few dozen meters away. I've had trouble figuring out how to translate the output from the antenna's SMA connector to my computer. I tried a cheap USB dongle, but it doesn't play well with linux (also didn't work on my windows drive for some reason, but worked on a friend's). I then got help on a few router models without success. So I bought a used NetGear model.
I hope to ask your help learning how to wire the SMA connector from the ActionTec model into the NetGear circuitboard. But the Actiontec has both wires of the same color, so I can't tell which is positive & which is neutral.
(It seems like this is a grey area since antennas don't actually send power, but one wire goes to the centre pin and one to the outer braid)
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp96xNic7ho )
![ActionTec160432sm.jpg ActionTec160432sm.jpg](https://www.edaboard.com/data/attachments/87/87687-f71332cb5933eba271cfd8cadfa5e277.jpg)
I've included all files both overall and close-ups here - **broken link removed**
Once again thanks in advance
I've built a few Wifi antennas in hopes of drawing in a signal from a few dozen meters away. I've had trouble figuring out how to translate the output from the antenna's SMA connector to my computer. I tried a cheap USB dongle, but it doesn't play well with linux (also didn't work on my windows drive for some reason, but worked on a friend's). I then got help on a few router models without success. So I bought a used NetGear model.
I hope to ask your help learning how to wire the SMA connector from the ActionTec model into the NetGear circuitboard. But the Actiontec has both wires of the same color, so I can't tell which is positive & which is neutral.
(It seems like this is a grey area since antennas don't actually send power, but one wire goes to the centre pin and one to the outer braid)
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp96xNic7ho )
![ActionTec160432sm.jpg ActionTec160432sm.jpg](https://www.edaboard.com/data/attachments/87/87687-f71332cb5933eba271cfd8cadfa5e277.jpg)
I've included all files both overall and close-ups here - **broken link removed**
Once again thanks in advance