Comments on: How to replace a Netgear router antenna

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:38:25 +0000

The antenna and its mounting bracket were removed and a U.FL to RP-SMA adapter was put in its place using a washer to secure it to the rear plate of the router.

By: super hacker

super hacker — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:33:37 +0000

serious anyone who bitches about useless reading should do there own DIY and send it in..

By: conundrum

conundrum — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:47:21 +0000

i am currently posting using a router which blew out its ADSL receiver chip due to a nearby lightning strike.
Found another similar Netgear with a blown chipset and swapped out the chip, worked fine. Wile I was in there changed out the main capacitor as it looked a bit bedraggled.
Saved throwing away an otherwise perfectly good RangeMax…

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:02:23 +0000

All of you bitching about the website can go choke on ten bags of dicks, fucking ingrates.

By: CH

CH — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:51:13 +0000

@Zach Banks:
But either you publish every submission, or you don’t. Publishing all would be undesirable, but some might still see value in those that don’t get published.

By: Zach Banks

Zach Banks — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:09:42 +0000

@CH: feel free to send us your hacks! We read every submission!

By: CH

CH — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:17:29 +0000

Maybe we should have one site on which anyone can submit ‘hacks’ from which the HaD can pick to feature in HaD articles, acting as a kind of polished ‘Best of’ for the former site?
We could also start a wiki as a reference to the information held in HaD articles, one of the problems I have with some of recent articles is that it means searching through HaD articles isn’t as useful as it used to be, as there is now a lot of clutter. What Do You Think?

By: Pilotgeek

Pilotgeek — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:15:19 +0000

@EdZ
… But it obviously was made to have a different antenna. They didn’t put the antenna in from the factory, but the holes and connectors are there. Sometimes factories make a universal case just in case they decide to add something in the future or use the same case for a different model. So I guess while you technically could call it a hack, you could just put stickers all over it and say the same thing.

By: bobob

bobob — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:33:18 +0000

this would only be considered challenging or a “hack” if the person doing it was 5 years old.

R.I.P. hackaday.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:32:17 +0000

“you shouldn’t have to sift through them if you don’t want to.”

because there are hundreds of posts a day

By: captain obvious

captain obvious — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:06:10 +0000

to all:
Hackaday is evolving like every other entity. They’ve been making changes and growing their daily base for years now. Remember Eliot explaining the growth to the whiny commenters back in 2005? I do.

what this site needs, isn’t to limit the stories. What this site needs is to grow the delivery platform to benefit the readers.

There should be something like a skill level filter. You can select whatever level you want to see. There’s no reason that simple little mods shouldn’t be posted, but you shouldn’t have to sift through them if you don’t want to.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:38:10 +0000

I don’t submit because I don’t think you need to see my “ping pong ball LED diffuser” experiments that I’m doing right now. They are too elementary.

I used to kinda look to this site for some of my inspiration, but I recently gave all my Lego to my nephew and niece, and i don’t have a good app for a controller.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:01:46 +0000

wow, this is my little “hack”, thanks to whoever submitted it to hackaday. i know it’s not the craziest little mod out there, but i found it useful, and i hope someone else can too. more than a couple netgear routers use the same setup.

By: emis

emis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:34:29 +0000

Agreed… this is not really a “hack”, but it is informative–how would you have known this was so simple w/o this short write-up? So now many someone out there will buy this router knowing that they can add an external antenna easily–tho voiding the warranty.

Keep going hackaday, this is fine stuff.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:23:21 +0000

even though its not a hack, it is good to document this