How fragile are MC connectors?

Scorched · 07-31-2004

I just bought a Proxim Orinoco Classic Gold, along with a 12 inch ORiNOCO/Avaya to N-Male Pigtail from fab-corp. I've heard the MC jack on the card could easily be broken? Should I avoid taking it out? I can live with that, but there's no way I can avoid the pigtail head rotating inside the jack.

Also, I feel stupid for asking this but I bought an Antennex yagi antenna, and the plastic cap on the top stays on, correct?

macpad · 07-31-2004

Yes they can break, but if you are only worried about the rotation, then a bit of insulation tape wrapped around the cable and connector to hold it in place works for me

King_Ice_Flash · 07-31-2004

The connectors get worn from removing, twisting, or flexing them. The four little tab for the ground of the connector also can break. I had a new card and pigtail. The first pigtail lasted a year. The second lasted a month before it broke the pin off in the card shorting the connector out, so neither the internal antenna or the external connector worked. It got removed about once a week, and I was careful on the connector, not on the wire.

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Scorched Consumer Whore Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Tulsa, OK Posts: 8	How fragile are MC connectors? I just bought a Proxim Orinoco Classic Gold, along with a 12 inch ORiNOCO/Avaya to N-Male Pigtail from fab-corp. I've heard the MC jack on the card could easily be broken? Should I avoid taking it out? I can live with that, but there's no way I can avoid the pigtail head rotating inside the jack. Also, I feel stupid for asking this but I bought an Antennex yagi antenna, and the plastic cap on the top stays on, correct?

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King_Ice_Flash Alien Paranoid Stumbler Join Date: May 2003 Location: WI Posts: 2,688	The connectors get worn from removing, twisting, or flexing them. The four little tab for the ground of the connector also can break. I had a new card and pigtail. The first pigtail lasted a year. The second lasted a month before it broke the pin off in the card shorting the connector out, so neither the internal antenna or the external connector worked. It got removed about once a week, and I was careful on the connector, not on the wire. __________________ "Yeah," said a voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."

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07-31-2004	#2 (permalink)
macpad Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Cornwall (UK) Posts: 37	Yes they can break, but if you are only worried about the rotation, then a bit of insulation tape wrapped around the cable and connector to hold it in place works for me