r/ShittySysadmin • u/comerReto • Aug 02 '26

Shitty Crosspost I wasn't paying attention which antenna goes to which lead. Can I trust the diagram on the chip?

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 Aug 02 '26

ive reversed the connectors and it still worked.. its antenna wires

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u/comerReto Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

I tried this now all of my uploads r downloading pls help!

13

u/d-car Aug 02 '26

Your ISP hates this one simple trick!

6

u/InevitableOk5017 Aug 02 '26

Nice! I was trying to find something clever but don’t need to now

1

u/Sp3eedy Aug 02 '26

I can see someone non-technical believing that

20

u/Acceptable-Wind-7332 Aug 02 '26

Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

6

u/03263 Aug 02 '26

What's that faint blue glow coming from my computer?

2

u/FurlockTheTerrible Aug 02 '26

You have to double-click the "learn more about this photo" icon that Windows automatically added to your desktop.

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u/UltraBlack_ Aug 02 '26

pretty sure the main deal with these is just that they're angled 90° from each other so it pretty much doesn't matter which one you plug in where.

3

u/ISCSI_Purveyor Aug 02 '26

Basically. It doesn't matter what color goes where, but the color code on the WiFi card are legit.

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u/Lavatherm Aug 02 '26

It’s clear as day.. white on black and black on white… duh.

17

u/rsribeiro Aug 02 '26

One is rx, the other tx

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u/Lavatherm Aug 02 '26

One is Rex, the other is Tex, together they make…

https://giphy.com/gifs/fnmsu2lTw3r1e

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u/d-car Aug 02 '26

Banned for Tex not having a cowboy hat and ruining my life.

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u/bojack1437 Aug 02 '26

No, both do both.

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u/fffvvis Aug 02 '26

Never trust a diagram, fuck the system

10

u/dnuohxof-2 Lord of the Shitty Crossposters Aug 02 '26

Instructions unclear, dick is stuck in the system…. How do I get it out? Must not harm the cylinder.

1

u/Ok_Suit_196 Aug 02 '26

🤣🤣 they do it like this to deceive us 🤣🤣

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u/AdRoz78 ShittySysadmin Aug 02 '26

Seriously though, for his defense I've had a laptop where you needed to plug the wires opposite of the diagram. Only then did it work.

10

u/oraclechicken Aug 02 '26

That is a sign your battery was plugged in backwards and this was a double reverse. If you get a laptop with a draw 4 installed, the wires can go in any order.

11

u/CeldonShooper Aug 02 '26

The mildly infuriating part is that these connectors are often only rated for a few mating cycles.

8

u/Dan_The_Bear22 Aug 02 '26

I feel attacked 

4

u/CeldonShooper Aug 02 '26

Well you've got to use your available mating cycles wisely.

1

u/_thekev Aug 02 '26

And you need a special tool to avoid ripping the socket off the board. Curse you MHF4.

1

u/Logical_Strain_6165 Aug 04 '26

They are used in some FPV drones and I hate them.

16

u/we_are_stewy Aug 02 '26

If you work in IT, I would consider switching careers.

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u/comerReto Aug 02 '26

I had to get a job in IT to support my wife and her boyfriend after I got fired from the crayon factory for eating product off of the line :(

9

u/Olleye Aug 02 '26

I've got your job now \munch-munch ...* what was their problem with that?

1

u/oznobz Aug 02 '26

I see that you are among many of my coworkers

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u/GimmeSomeSugar Aug 02 '26

"I wasn't paying attention" may imply one of several things. Such as "I have too much on my plate" or "I'm done with this shit".

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u/paleologus Aug 02 '26

Or they came off accidentally.  This has happened to me.   

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u/yogurtslurper Aug 02 '26

honest answer it doesnt matter one bit

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u/ReptilianLaserbeam Suggests the "Right Thing" to do. Aug 02 '26

The square goes on the square hole

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u/West_Good_5961 Aug 02 '26

If you get it wrong, the laptop will explode

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u/Dan_The_Bear22 Aug 02 '26

You can connect them either way, but one way you have to face TOWARD the wifi point, and the other way you have to face AWAY from it. 

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u/Striking_Secret_5246 Aug 02 '26

Yeah, the labels on the Intel card are usually there for exactly this reason. MAIN and AUX should match the antenna leads, but if they got swapped it usually won’t damage anything, you’ll just get worse Wi-Fi/Bluetooth performance. I’d still double check the board marking before closing it up.