can you put a usb wifi adapter inside a computor?
hi have just purchest a shuttle sb6g12 on ebayyou know those little cube computors i got a prietty good deal but it only has 6 usbs and im using the one pci for a tuner and i want to put a wifi card in it
i was just thinking if i could put a mini usb wireles dongle and a bluetooth dongle and atatchi to the inner case of the computer and get one of those wires with 2 usbs o the end and atach it to the usb hheader on the motherboard or am i talking lulu i think you can because the front 2 usbs are atached like that i just want to do it internaly
4 Responses to “can you put a usb wifi adapter inside a computor?”
James M on July 1, 2011
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this would work. but having the usb in side the case can limit the signal strength and cause unwanted interference.
Marvin on July 1, 2011
If you put the USB wireless dongle inside the computer case it will not be able to pick up a signal. This is because radio waves cannot travel into the inside of an electrically charged metal container. Its known as a "Faraday cage". Google it.
Chris Romkema on July 1, 2011
Your question is a bit long and disorganized, but the general answer to your question is yes, you can. I did this once with an old laptop by soldering the wifi adapter to the pins on the motherboard. Of course, this makes that port unusable, but it does hide the usb dongle nicely. How to do it exactly will change based on your computer, dongle, and level of ability.
Ralph 124c41 on July 1, 2011
You can do it by modifying your mother board, but it doesn’t seem useful to me. I would suggest that if 6 ports aren’t enough, get a USB hub. 7 port hubs are cheap, and 12 port hubs are available. These hubs are generally self-powered, which eases the load on the often marginal computer power supply, and they can be daisy-chained to give you as many ports (well, up to 255 / controller) as you need.