Interesting. I have the intell 5300 and all three antennas are connected. Unless the 4965 is not mimio then there would be no reason to connect the 3rd antenna. The wwan slot should accodiate either card. as to the wwan card it only has two so you would use the other set. You should only have one card in the system at a time
why should i have one card at a time? one for wireless one for 3g/hsdpa connection, so they shouldnt interfere, otherwise it would be quite pointless to have that system? please clarify.
i believe 4965 is mimio, so actually it should have been connected, i guess.
I hope someone from dell technical help desk responds to this message. I dont want to ring technical help because first you wait sooo long to speak to somebody, and second it is not that easy to explain without any visual help, like pictures I attached.
I hope someone from dell technical help desk responds to this message. I dont want to ring technical help because first you wait sooo long to speak to somebody, and second it is not that easy to explain without any visual help, like pictures I attached.
This is a user to user forum and not monitored by Dell support.
:^/ If one should only have one card connected at a time, there would be no point to having two slots. My XPS M1210 has two slots, one for WLAN and one for WWAN. Both are populated, and both work fine. Mind you, I haven't tried using both cards at once, but I'm pretty sure that I could. My WLAN connects to our Wi-Fi router at home, while my WWAN card is meant for Sprint Mobile Broadband. I've hacked it to use Cricket Mobile Broadband, instead, and it works just fine.
As for antennae, my WWAN card uses the two wires which were already in place in the laptop. Mine were gray, and black with a gray stripe, just as two of yours are. In your case, I'd try those first. For what it's worth, I didn't notice a blue wire in mine, but then I didn't pull out the WLAN card while I was in there.
Your WLAN card seems to have an empty third connector, too. Interesting.
yes, very confusing! one of those cables should be connected to wlan card, i believe. but which one?
at the same time, wwan card has two connectors, and the little indicators showing one should be black and the other one white. I have two white and a blue cable! what the ..?
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for the M1330, the black wire goes to the connector labeled "aux," while the white one goes to the connector labeled "main."
Soooo, now we know.
:^/ As for your wires, maybe it's just the photo, but I see two white, two black, and one blue wire. One black and one white are atteched to the WLAN (Wi-Fi) card already. If it works like that, leave them alone. The other white wirer goes to the "main" connector on the WWAN card, while the other one would go to the "aux" connector on the WWAN card.
You say that you have an extra white wire, and prehaps you do, but the last wire looks to me like a black wire with a thin white stripe. Perhaps one pair of wires are striped to distinguish them from the solid ones, so that they don't get mixed between cards?
On my Studio Xps 16 the blue wire is connected to the WPAN or bluetooth card. My 5300 card has three connections, white, black and grey. and i have a extra grey/white and black cable which would go to the WWAN card.
you have the black triangle drawn on top of he wwan card (black-gray goes there), and white empty triangle (white-gray goes on it). You leave the others...
The problem remains with 5530 that when you hybernate the system, after restoring the system it does not find the card at all (you have to reboot).
FYI, for whatever silly reason, Dell released the LED panel 1330s without the extra grey antenna necessary for draft-n wifi. If you're interested, you'll find pics of the "std" panel and the triple draft-n setup here (thanks to BlackRussian)
Either way, this third cable has nothing to do with WWAN, which should be hooked up to the included striped antenna-cable set (blk-grey & white-grey).
I recently also found out, thanks again to BlackRussian, that the solo blue antenna is for CWUSB although it may also be for "WPAN" devices, not 100% sure... :emotion-43:
The third wire is only need for cards that are multiple antennas or MIMO type cards. Note that you also need to be using a MIMO router to take full advantage of the third antenna.
What will remain to be seen is whether this configuration is adopted in the final "N" specification. My guess is it may not.
The third wire is only need for cards that are multiple antennas or MIMO type cards. ... whether this configuration is adopted in the final "N" specification...
Thx for correcting me - I
assumed that draft-n was MIMO... :emotion-10:
As for the Mini PCIe card, I was referring to the draft-n cards offered to XPS M1330 EU (Intel 4965AGN) which indeed has three connectors. Almost all €50+ "Home" Access points / Routers offer draft-n (here in EU, at least), so that's not a problem, either. Not to mention, they all "seem to" support MIMO too... :emotion-40:
Even my old 54Mbit 802.11g has "multiple" anntenas (Linksys WRT54GS) but only uses a single channel... so I'm still a bit shaky with the whole concept, but I promise to do some research & get back to you on that :emotion-5:
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Interesting. I have the intell 5300 and all three antennas are connected. Unless the 4965 is not mimio then there would be no reason to connect the 3rd antenna. The wwan slot should accodiate either card. as to the wwan card it only has two so you would use the other set. You should only have one card in the system at a time
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September 1st, 2009 17:00
why should i have one card at a time? one for wireless one for 3g/hsdpa connection, so they shouldnt interfere, otherwise it would be quite pointless to have that system? please clarify.
i believe 4965 is mimio, so actually it should have been connected, i guess.
very confusing indeed!
mryenilmez
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September 2nd, 2009 02:00
I hope someone from dell technical help desk responds to this message. I dont want to ring technical help because first you wait sooo long to speak to somebody, and second it is not that easy to explain without any visual help, like pictures I attached.
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This is a user to user forum and not monitored by Dell support.
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:^/ If one should only have one card connected at a time, there would be no point to having two slots. My XPS M1210 has two slots, one for WLAN and one for WWAN. Both are populated, and both work fine. Mind you, I haven't tried using both cards at once, but I'm pretty sure that I could. My WLAN connects to our Wi-Fi router at home, while my WWAN card is meant for Sprint Mobile Broadband. I've hacked it to use Cricket Mobile Broadband, instead, and it works just fine.
As for antennae, my WWAN card uses the two wires which were already in place in the laptop. Mine were gray, and black with a gray stripe, just as two of yours are. In your case, I'd try those first. For what it's worth, I didn't notice a blue wire in mine, but then I didn't pull out the WLAN card while I was in there.
Your WLAN card seems to have an empty third connector, too. Interesting.
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September 3rd, 2009 02:00
yes, very confusing! one of those cables should be connected to wlan card, i believe. but which one?
at the same time, wwan card has two connectors, and the little indicators showing one should be black and the other one white. I have two white and a blue cable! what the ..?
this really shouldnt be this complicated!
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;^) According to Dell's online manual
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for the M1330, the black wire goes to the connector labeled "aux," while the white one goes to the connector labeled "main."
Soooo, now we know.
:^/ As for your wires, maybe it's just the photo, but I see two white, two black, and one blue wire. One black and one white are atteched to the WLAN (Wi-Fi) card already. If it works like that, leave them alone. The other white wirer goes to the "main" connector on the WWAN card, while the other one would go to the "aux" connector on the WWAN card.
You say that you have an extra white wire, and prehaps you do, but the last wire looks to me like a black wire with a thin white stripe. Perhaps one pair of wires are striped to distinguish them from the solid ones, so that they don't get mixed between cards?
mryenilmez
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September 12th, 2009 17:00
yes, i think they are only striped. i connected wwan to those two and it works just fine.
now my only question is the "blue cable". i have no clue where does it go! is that the 3rd connector on wlan card (which is suppose to be gray)?
ive asked dell support but all they say is white goes here, black goes there etc etc, but nothing about blue cable!
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On my Studio Xps 16 the blue wire is connected to the WPAN or bluetooth card. My 5300 card has three connections, white, black and grey. and i have a extra grey/white and black cable which would go to the WWAN card.
justoneguy
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September 25th, 2009 13:00
On WWAn 5530 there are two (installed it myself):
you have the black triangle drawn on top of he wwan card (black-gray goes there), and white empty triangle (white-gray goes on it). You leave the others...
The problem remains with 5530 that when you hybernate the system, after restoring the system it does not find the card at all (you have to reboot).
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October 1st, 2009 18:00
FYI, for whatever silly reason, Dell released the LED panel 1330s without the extra grey antenna necessary for draft-n wifi. If you're interested, you'll find pics of the "std" panel and the triple draft-n setup here (thanks to BlackRussian)
Either way, this third cable has nothing to do with WWAN, which should be hooked up to the included striped antenna-cable set (blk-grey & white-grey).
I recently also found out, thanks again to BlackRussian, that the solo blue antenna is for CWUSB although it may also be for "WPAN" devices, not 100% sure... :emotion-43:
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October 1st, 2009 18:00
The third wire is only need for cards that are multiple antennas or MIMO type cards. Note that you also need to be using a MIMO router to take full advantage of the third antenna.
What will remain to be seen is whether this configuration is adopted in the final "N" specification. My guess is it may not.
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October 2nd, 2009 06:00
As for the Mini PCIe card, I was referring to the draft-n cards offered to XPS M1330 EU (Intel 4965AGN) which indeed has three connectors. Almost all €50+ "Home" Access points / Routers offer draft-n (here in EU, at least), so that's not a problem, either. Not to mention, they all "seem to" support MIMO too... :emotion-40:
Even my old 54Mbit 802.11g has "multiple" anntenas (Linksys WRT54GS) but only uses a single channel... so I'm still a bit shaky with the whole concept, but I promise to do some research & get back to you on that :emotion-5: