Macbook airport card and antenna

i have 2 macbook c2d,one has the 2 antenna airport card and the wifi is very slow,the other with 3 i presume is n version,but i had to swap the screens over,now the mabook i use has a 3 antenna card but only 2 antenna from the monitor,would i be better of using the 3 antenna version but ust plugging 2 in and which 2?

I can't help with tracking down the "T" shaped antenna that plugs into the back of the G5, or an equivalent, but I can tell you that the wire that connects to the Airport card in my G5 disappears around the back of the motherboard.
It may have a metal ring on the other end but I can't see it.
I'm assuming you didn't buy the G5 new, because you are missing of the "T" shaped antenna which is supplied with the computer, so I'm guessing whoever had the G5 before you pulled the airport card out before disconnecting the antenna cable and ripped it from its mounting.
My guess is the metal ring is used to attach it somehow.

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Hello mac community,
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I don't know if it is without the antenna, nor do I know if the stock 2.5ghz G5 came with a wireless card in it. Does this mac need a card or would telling them to buy another antenna work? I looked at this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1305 to try to find where the card would be (in the front, under a fan, above the RAM slots right?) and didn't see a card in the slot that I know of, though I'm not good with computers.
So can this mac get wireless without a card, but with an antenna? Do I have to have a card? And did the G5 stock 2.5ghz have a card? I never removed the card if it did.
Thanks guys

My answers assume you're referring to wireless internet, aka Airport Extreme, 802.11a/b/g/n. In any event, most of this applies to Bluetooth as well.
So can this mac get wireless without a card, but with an antenna?
No.
Do I have to have a card?
Yes. And range will be very short (at best) without the antenna.
And did the G5 stock 2.5ghz have a card?
No. Airport and Bluetooth were both optional.
So, it's capable of wireless, but needs the card and antenna to do so. If someone doesn't want to use the official Apple Airport card and antenna ,available here (card) and here (antenna)). An external USB wireless dongle, such as this one can also be used. The USB dongles are generally the only way to support the fastest wireless connection, 802.11n.

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Hi.
My MacBook Pro 13" (early-2011)'s hard drive has broken, and I bought a Kingston 120GB SSDNow instead.
Earlier, the airport card and cable has been broken too.
Are there other ways I can use LAN to recover my mac? It wants me to use wifi, but the airport card is broken...
If so, why does it only want to use Wifi instead of LAN?
LAN is like the extra parachute just in case, or the extra octopus regulator in scuba diving.

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Hello Aldric, welcome to discussions.
It's quite suspicious that your Airport card and one of your memory modules have suddenly "disappeared" at the same time.
This could certainly indicate a hardware issue, but I won't speculate as to what caused it. Sure, a power surge could do this... have you had one recently?
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I would try and Contact brother to see about disabling it.
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See about deleting just the software and not the drivers. That is if you dont need the software.
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Hello!
Picked up a used Pismo in great shape. I have a spare working Airport card and installed it. It did not work. So I erased the drive that had 10.2.3 and installed 10.4 with all updates to 10.4.8. Still does not work. I took the PowerBook apart and examined the card dock pins, cable and mobo connection. Physically they all look fine.
I am pretty avid and mac hardware repair. I have a couple Pismo motherboards and stuff in storage. Before I go taking all this apart again and swapping stuff out, could I be doing something wrong here?
I see only two sources of potential fault. The motherboard or the card. Any experts hear of Pismos having Airport issues? (all other buses are fine, firewire, UBS, etc) Any report of Airport cards dying? (I dont have another spare to test)
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marco,
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http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html

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I have searched the web and even called Apple to have this question answered, nothing found online and apple support kept changing their answer. I would like to keep using the AirPort extreme with ethernet but disable the wifi. I know that turning off wifi on a Mac will cut the power to the AirPort card and stop it from emitting any kind of signal (at least this is what I have been told many times). I am wondering if this goes for the AirPort Extreme as well.
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Does anyone have more detailed/technical information or the equipment to test and verify if the radio is actually disabled when wifi is turned off in AriPort Utility? Apple support told me that when wifi is disabled it will continue to broadcast a signal with the same strength, just not one that can be picked up (no name etc), that it would only stop if the power was cut completely. Then I was told, as soon as wifi is disabled there is only a very weak scattered signal left and then I was told there was no signal at all. (Amazing what kind of answers you can get if you just epeat the same question several times).
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Although I do not have a spectrum analyser.. I do have an excellent ubiquiti router which will produce a spectrum which is somewhat useful at least at 2.4ghz.
I have reduced the wireless routers around me to absolute min.
And I can only do this on 2.4ghz..
So this shows a dlink from a neighbour and the TC sitting near the ubiquiti.
Then I can do a spectrum analysis.
This is with wireless on. You can see the waterfall display of plenty of signal in the channel 6 area.
Now a spectral analysis with wireless off.
You can clearly see there is now no signal at channel 6.. so wireless off has turned off the RF on the TC.
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Macbook Penryn 2.4 GHz. iStat Pro says 157 F/68 C. Constantly. On the other hand the bottom does not feel that hot at all. Top cover is slightly warm, most of the time I will not even notice. After I disconnect the power adapter and instntly connect it back again, the temp goes down to 130 F/54 C in about 10 sec and gradually in matter of days it will go back up to 155 F and stay there. So I wonder if a) something is wrong with the power inside the MB or b) the sensor is totally messing it up and iStat Pro is reading the wrong info. I don't believe the problem is with the Airport Card. I already replaced 2 MBs on my third one. Still the same thing...AppleCare has no idea why this is happening. I replaced the macboook once. I am not going crazy about that, but I have another MB that I purchased November last year. It is 2.2 GHz and everything elese is exactly the same (i.e. software installed, processes, memory, hdd..). In exactly the same conditions the temp stays at 119F/48C. Additionally the download speed of my new MB (wireless) is at least 2 times slower than my relatively old MB. Tested this on 3 2.4 GHz MBs with the same poor download results. Upload is exactly the same.
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Hi, my airport card has just broken, the range has been halved so at the moment i have to hug my wireless box to get signal. As the title says i cant afford the repair, its an old computer out of warrenty and im a student without surplus cash. I was wondering does anyone know any cheaper ways off fixing this? wireless USB sticks that are compatible with older macbooks?
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The Asus WL-167g wireless USB adapter works with my old iBook as well as my new MacBook. I tried it just to be sure, although of course I use the Airport card on the MacBook. If you use it, remember to turn off Airport.
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Hi
I recently bought an eMac second-hand off of a high-school, and wanted to upgrade it a bit. I've already bumped the ram up to 2GB, and I pulled the whole thing apart and swapped the CD drive for a DVD writer (I had to go through about a couple I had lying around before I got one that worked perfectly), and installed a new HDD.
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Hey nuke,
bought an eMac second-hand off of a high-school..I pulled the whole thing apart and swapped the CD drive for a DVD writer.. installed a new HDD.
Since you bought it from a high school it would be an educational model and probably didn't have blue tooth installed.
Here's the part numbers for originals (from service source):
"Bluetooth Board
922-6201
Bluetooth Antenna (Not Shown)
922-6402"
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Richard

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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.
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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).
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Good luck,
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