Comments on: Mounting an external antenna on EeePC 900

By: Terry Porter

Terry Porter — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:59:18 +0000

Hi All,
I’m the author of the article, and have FINALLY moved it to a FASTER hosted server :)

Now everyone should be able to get thru …

http://wiki.portertech.org/doku.php?id=eeepc900-ext-antenna

Cheers
Terry Porter

By: RonzO

RonzO — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:37:24 +0000

How much of a gain is that compared to the regular built in antenna? I’m thinking of doing it to mine, and possibly use a 2 or 5 dB antenna.

By: Mr Toughbook

Mr Toughbook — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:31:48 +0000

Big woop… I’ve been doing this to my Ultimate Toughbooks for years now…

By: BigD145

BigD145 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:37:21 +0000

Interesting placement. I’ve done similar mounting using the bezel of my laptop.

By: markp1989

markp1989 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:29:10 +0000

i never thought of mountnig it there, i have mounted a sma connector in the dissused modem port on my 701, and am considering moving it to the same place as yours

By: dax

dax — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:23:23 +0000

coral cache has the bandwidth….

By: n3rd1

n3rd1 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:16:19 +0000

someone get this man some image hosting! … seriously though, someone has to have the bandwidth.

By: Terry Porter

Terry Porter — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:29:57 +0000

Hi all,
I’m the author of the article.

Apologies for the slow access.

My ISP hasn’t cut me off, and won’t, but my 1.5Mbits/256Kbits ADSl link is maxed out due to the high number of unexpected hits!

I thought perhaps a few hundred people would be interested in this mod, lol!

My server is a home hosted hp-netserver running Gnu/Linux and is handling the hits ok, it’s just bandwidth starved.

Try again another day if you want to see all the pics.

Cheers
Terry

By: cde

cde — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:34:20 +0000

Site is using DynamicDNS, or is in other words being hosted by the guy’s home network. So its down and unreachable right now (ISP probably cut him off due to the hackaday effect)

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:10:28 +0000

No luck getting on the site.

As a side note, Dell just told us via a rep that hardware mods will void our Inspiron mini 9’s warranty over at mydellmini.com!

Go figure that one, huh?

Good thing they keep _that_ guy on the payroll.

By: Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:07:02 +0000

thanks, got a little happy with the zeros.

By: tom61

tom61 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:52:54 +0000

EEE PC 900, not 9000. Website is already not responding on top of it. :/