Secondly, the VGA port comes with a few pins that are unassigned, sometimes they are soldered to the ground, and in some cases they are simply soldered to nothing. The VGA plug and Wi-Fi antenna cable ( view large image)
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I decided to hook the amplifier through the VGA monitor out port! Why? First reason, the port is strong and can hold the weight of the amplifier, plus it comes with screw holes. The amplifier was expensive ($118) and I wanted to preserve it.Heat issues! Those amplifiers produce heat and they are not supplied with an adequate heat dispenser.It is very difficult to find a place for the amplifier inside the laptop without affecting other components.I wanted more liberty hooking any antenna I wanted to the amplifier.Though I wanted to put the amplifier inside the laptop, I decided not to do that for the following reasons: I had 2 options, I could either take off the circuit of the amplifier and find a place for it in the laptop, which is a nice idea, or I can find a way to hook it externally. The third problem was hooking the card to the amplifier. Power supply from USB ( view large image) I needed 6v, and the USB was giving me 5v - close enough! The second problem was power supply! As usual, if you have a mother board the best power supply you can get is from a USB port. One of the best features of the Dell 1470 is that you can select the antenna plug you would like to use - main or aux, so I selected the main and I soldered the cable to it. The first problem I faced with my Wi-Fi card were the connectors, they are so small and very difficult to connect to a plug, buying a special connector for the card would have cost me another $15 plus shipping, so I decided to solder the cable directly to the card. The Wi-Fi Amplifier, "Turbo-Tenna", purchased from eBay ( view large image) I bought the amplifier for $118, it is a 500 mw bi-directional amplifier called "turbo tenna", the amplifier was shipped from Hong Kong and I received it shortly after ordering on eBay. I have an ASUS A2H laptop with a Dell 1470 a/b/g Wi-Fi mini PCI card inside, I bought the card for $20 off of eBay. I decided to buy a Wi-Fi amplifier and hook it to my laptop.