Airport card and the 3 wires

Hi there: I have just installed the airport card in my Mac Pro dual 4 core. I saw that there are 3 wires marked 1, 2 and 3.
As the cards can accept only 2 of them which ones have I to connect? And in which order (Top/bottom) Thanks a lot in advance for your help!!!!!!!!
Greetings
Fabrizio

Fabrizio,
I wrote in another thread (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9343432):
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As far as I know installing the AirPort card is not supposed to be done by customers themselves (and so you may void warranty when breaking anything - although installing the card is pretty easy).
The documentation I saw for the AirPort Exteme card said: "connect antenna wires #1 and #3 (either way is good) - #2 not used". This is what I did and it seems to work pretty well.
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Good luck,
ltsl

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