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IOGear GBU221 Bluetooth antenna mod

Step 2Prepwork

Prepwork
Now we have the little gizmo all naked and ready to mod its time to get all the other stuff we are going to need. I am not big into listing all the tools you will need and all that jive basically because I figure if you are going to do this then you probably have some basic knowledge and tools to hand. I will say this though you will need a GOOD soldering iron with a nice pointy tip, the smaller the better.

In my box of scrap I had an old wireless router that had this handy little antenna pigtail thingy. On one end was a little connecter (the type that clips on the mini PCI wireless cards for laptops) and on the other end was a nice SMA connector , the type of thing you would find on the back of a Dlink router.
If you don't have anything like the little pigtail thing I found then worst case you could cut the connector of the end of an antenna connect it directly to the USB gizmo.

That's really about all you will need so lets move right along
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