Anyone using a Intel 6200 in their laptop? I was wondering which antenna terminals did you attached the black and white antenna wires?
When I was doing some research for the Intel 5300, I found just as much conflicting information for the 6200. The conflicting information went from the color of the antenna wire not making a difference, which I believe to be wrong, to the black wire definitely goes on Ant1, and then in a different post the black wire going on Ant2.
The only wireless card that seemed to make some sense was some of the 5300 cards that had a color coded triangle and even then people got the antenna terminals mixed up, saying that the terminals were 1, 2 and 3 -- when they are marked 1, 3 and 2 (white, gray and black). These inconsistencies started to make me think that there was a reasonable uncertainty how I wired mine up.
However, when I replaced the stock card with the Intel 6200, I placed the antenna wires according to the silk screening on the wireless card PCB and not according to the original orientation of the antenna wires on the stock card.
The original card was marked Ant1 (black on the right) and Ant2 (white on the left). The Intel 6200 was only marked 1 and 2. As such, on the Intel 6200 I placed the black wire on 1 (left) and the white wire on 2 (right). So, it wasn't about left or right, or black and white, but about keeping 1 on 1 and 2 on 2.
Second question; for someone that is upgrading their two antenna laptop with a three antenna wireless card, should they also purchase a three antenna set that includes a separate gray antenna? In other words, is the gray antenna wire important enough for the third antenna terminal that you have the correct three antenna wires?
When I was doing some research for the Intel 5300, I found just as much conflicting information for the 6200. The conflicting information went from the color of the antenna wire not making a difference, which I believe to be wrong, to the black wire definitely goes on Ant1, and then in a different post the black wire going on Ant2.
The only wireless card that seemed to make some sense was some of the 5300 cards that had a color coded triangle and even then people got the antenna terminals mixed up, saying that the terminals were 1, 2 and 3 -- when they are marked 1, 3 and 2 (white, gray and black). These inconsistencies started to make me think that there was a reasonable uncertainty how I wired mine up.
However, when I replaced the stock card with the Intel 6200, I placed the antenna wires according to the silk screening on the wireless card PCB and not according to the original orientation of the antenna wires on the stock card.
The original card was marked Ant1 (black on the right) and Ant2 (white on the left). The Intel 6200 was only marked 1 and 2. As such, on the Intel 6200 I placed the black wire on 1 (left) and the white wire on 2 (right). So, it wasn't about left or right, or black and white, but about keeping 1 on 1 and 2 on 2.
Second question; for someone that is upgrading their two antenna laptop with a three antenna wireless card, should they also purchase a three antenna set that includes a separate gray antenna? In other words, is the gray antenna wire important enough for the third antenna terminal that you have the correct three antenna wires?