SilverStone Technology Magnetic Wi-Fi Antenna Base With Gold Plated Jack And Plug (WAB1B) Review

I have some decent mini PCIE wireless bluetooth combos lying around from dead laptops, so I decided to try one of these adapters. Everything works as expected. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth have a better signal than I got with the laptop the card came from. It's just a problem that I need to connect USB when the laptop can work with both WiFi and BT via mini PCIE interface. I was expecting one PCIE to convert to the other with little change, but I don't think it is.

I was hoping for a slightly stronger signal by replacing the standard antennas on my Linksys EA 6900 router. Using the RE7000 expander's built-in diagnostics, no signal improvement was measured on the expander, despite the many improvements in the larger size . So for me it was of no benefit. I'm not sure under what conditions this would happen or if the active electronics would somehow need to detect a different antenna, but at least the Linksys EA6900 either already had better antennas or…

Bent some parts, tried to bend them back so they can be used but even then it didn't work. At least it was cheap. I can't imagine it working even if it wasn't DOA.