Re: Antenna for wireless

2016-08-25 Thread Google 
Never mind what I said below about making an antenna (which I’ve made a number 
of for various satellite receivers and other set-top boxes that use a coax 
fitting for antennas. I was working off of faulty memory about the connector 
for the G5 antenna. What I’ve got is a G5 Power Mac tower Airport “T” antenna 
and a proper G5 tower bluetooth antenna. I’ve got the antenna and bluetooth 
cards, plus the 4 screws that hold them in place. I’ve also got an Airport 
Extreme card. Plus I’ve got 3 sets of the original Apple Mac Pro hard drive 
roundhead black screws.
Jim Scott, Eureka, CA

> On Aug 25, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Jim Scott  wrote:
> 
> You could cut off the end of a coax cable, leaving about 6 inches of cable. 
> Then strip about  4-5 inches of insulation. Put a right angle bend in the 
> bare wire at the remaining insulation. Or strip a longer piece of coax and 
> fold it into a "T". Voila!
> Or you could buy the OEM Apple antenna plus a set of the correct Apple had 
> drive screws from me, shipped USPS Priority Mail from Eureka CA. How much do 
> you want to pay for that?
> Jim Scott
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Aug 25, 2016, at 3:03 PM, Bruce Johnson  
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 1:59 PM, TVirkkala  wrote:
>>> 
>>> A few years ago a friend's cat chewed up the antenna on my old G5, 1.8.
>>> 
>>> Now I need it! Finding a replacement seems rather expensive though. Look at 
>>> this price!
>>> 
>>> https://www.macpartsdepot.com/922-6043-airport-external-antenna-mac-pro-g5-powermac.html?gclid=CKWWsaHl284CFcSCfgodRqwK2w
>>> 
>>> $55! That's just the antenna.
>>> 
>>> Are there any workarounds? Could one screw something into the card (there 
>>> is a place to screw in the antenna) and then use a piece of wire to get the 
>>> antenna? Or can I take the little antennae I have on some old wireless 
>>> cards hanging around here and attach it to the wireless card on the G5?
>> 
>> You could probably get an appropriate wireless pigtail and attach a regular 
>> antenna
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bruce Johnson
>> University of Arizona
>> College of Pharmacy
>> Information Technology Group
>> 
>> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
>> 
>> 

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Re: Antenna for wireless

2016-08-25 Thread peterhaas 

> Or you could buy the OEM Apple antenna plus a set of the correct Apple had
> drive screws from me, shipped USPS Priority Mail from Eureka CA. How much
> do you want to pay for that?

The WiFi cards usually have one, two or three U.Fl connectors. Two is the
most common for cards used on Apple machines.

The (external) antennas themselves usually have a RP-SMA connector.

One antenna is usually sufficient, but two can be better than one.

Cables with a U.FL connector on one end and an RP.SMA connector on the
other are available in quite a number of lengths from ePay (sic) sellers.

For my Shuttle small form factor machines which usually have a fast 4-core
Intel processor and run MacOS X, I need a 12" internal cable to connect
the WiFi card to the antenna. The

Shuttles all have knockouts which accommodate the RP-SMA connector (and
therefore the antenna), and the other end connects directly to the WiFi
card (either Broadcom 94322, for early examples, or Realtek 8187 or
Atheros, for late examples).

Apple supplies drivers for Broadcom and Atheros WiFI cards, but the plist
usually has to be edited to enable the cards. For the Atheros, Apple uses
id=2a, but all the Atheros cards which are sold on ePay are id=2b.

Then there are USB WiFi cards with integral or detachable antennas, and
Apple even has drivers for those, as long as the card is Realtek-based.


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Re: Antenna for wireless

2016-08-25 Thread Bruce Johnson 

On Aug 25, 2016, at 1:59 PM, TVirkkala 
> wrote:

A few years ago a friend's cat chewed up the antenna on my old G5, 1.8.

Now I need it! Finding a replacement seems rather expensive though. Look at 
this price!

https://www.macpartsdepot.com/922-6043-airport-external-antenna-mac-pro-g5-powermac.html?gclid=CKWWsaHl284CFcSCfgodRqwK2w

$55! That's just the antenna.

Are there any workarounds? Could one screw something into the card (there is a 
place to screw in the antenna) and then use a piece of wire to get the antenna? 
Or can I take the little antennae I have on some old wireless cards hanging 
around here and attach it to the wireless card on the G5?

You could probably get an appropriate wireless pigtail and attach a regular 
antenna

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University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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Antenna for wireless

2016-08-25 Thread TVirkkala 

A few years ago a friend's cat chewed up the antenna on my old G5, 1.8.

Now I need it! Finding a replacement seems rather expensive though.  
Look at this price!


https://www.macpartsdepot.com/922-6043-airport-external-antenna-mac-pro-g5-powermac.html?gclid=CKWWsaHl284CFcSCfgodRqwK2w

$55! That's just the antenna.

Are there any workarounds? Could one screw something into the card  
(there is a place to screw in the antenna) and then use a piece of  
wire to get the antenna? Or can I take the little antennae I have on  
some old wireless cards hanging around here and attach it to the  
wireless card on the G5?


Or does someone have one of those little T antennas they'd be willing  
to sell me at a decent (for me!) price?


Timo V
 PowerPC G5x2.3GHz




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