Wii External Antenna Hack

Published: March 2, 2007, 10:37 am

Tags: nintendo, hardware, wireless, wii, wifi, mod

Here's a great hack for all you Nintendo Wii gamers out there. It involves adding an external antenna to your Wii to get better wireless reception.Seth Fogie from the informit.com site does an excellent step by step article on just how to set up an external antenna for the Wii. According to Seth:The Wii comes with an embedded wireless network card from Broadcom. This card is an 802.11b/g card that can connect to most of the 802.11 wireless access points on the market...And thanks to an intelligent wireless configuration setup, most users will simply click a few buttons, enter the passphrase, and be online.However, the Wii has no external wireless antenna which means the wifi range may not be as good as one would hope. Seth removed the Wii's wireless card and added an antenna and pigtail to the card's U.FL connectors. He then put everything back together and tested the wireless reception with Airmagnet's wireless analyzer program. The results? Pretty impressive!To check out the

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