Hi,
Im building a secondary HTPC with an old Atom/Ion itx board I have. Unlike my main HTPC this one will be wireless.
It has a mPCIE slot (full height) so I will pick up a Intel 5100 or 5300 on ebay. I found some for €10 and €15 respectively.
However I will be going for a compact mITX case. Most of them have a single hold drilled for a sma antenna.
Obviously the 5100 and 5300 have two and three antenna points respectively. I can drill more points if necessary but it will look kind of crazy to have two or three antenna sticking out the back of a tiny ITX case...
The usage scenario would be primarily receive (transmit throughput not important).
So my questions are
1) Will the cards work okay with a single antenna only?
2) Will I lose a significant amount of performance by using only a single antenna?
My wifi router is not 450Mbps but for the sake of the discussion lets assume it is (I will upgrade to something like E4200 in the near future).
Thanks
Im building a secondary HTPC with an old Atom/Ion itx board I have. Unlike my main HTPC this one will be wireless.
It has a mPCIE slot (full height) so I will pick up a Intel 5100 or 5300 on ebay. I found some for €10 and €15 respectively.
However I will be going for a compact mITX case. Most of them have a single hold drilled for a sma antenna.
Obviously the 5100 and 5300 have two and three antenna points respectively. I can drill more points if necessary but it will look kind of crazy to have two or three antenna sticking out the back of a tiny ITX case...
The usage scenario would be primarily receive (transmit throughput not important).
So my questions are
1) Will the cards work okay with a single antenna only?
2) Will I lose a significant amount of performance by using only a single antenna?
My wifi router is not 450Mbps but for the sake of the discussion lets assume it is (I will upgrade to something like E4200 in the near future).
Thanks
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