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Netgear M5 (MR5200) Internal Antennas Not Working
Advance thanks for any input, My Nighthawk fell off a shelf from pretty high up and now the internal antennas do not pickup any cell signal (searching📵) but if I connect external antennas every...
The internal antennas are just metal plates with contact to soldered contactors on the PCB very near to the two antenna connectors. The QTM525 modules you pictures are dedicated mmWave RF and antenna modules - not applicable for your device at all.
You find internal images here: https://www.comptoir-hardware.com/articles/quelques-heures-sur-le-comptoir/44175-nous-avons-essaye-netgear-nighthawk-m5.html?start=1 Fearlessly borrowed two images from this publication - guess they don't mind:
Thanks thats really helpful. I'd not found that article.
And yes it does have the QTM525 antenna module, mentioned in the diagram and if you look at the picture below at the bottom left, it's mounted vertically 😁😁 So it's probably just got knocked out of the socket in the drop or damaged, in which case I can replace it..
More info here if anyone need in future from an FCC report.. looks like multiple antenna modules and array configuration on the PCB for low band..
https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/PY321100529/5665583.pdf
No my friend, not at all. This module would be in place for routers supporting mmWave (like the most expensive M6 variants with mmWave support). Any other 4G and 5G is coming from the main PCB. Stop dreaming...
Further on, the mmWave antenna is an active micowave component, direct on this named module, and not on the PCB with additional antennas. Even if there is such a module in place (like on the M6 Pro models with mmWave support), and if it would fall off, only the mmWave part would become inop, neither the bult-in nor the on-board antenna connectors.
While talking, Netgear has some experience with similar modules, 802.11ad on 60 GHz band had been deployed back then well in the mmWave frequency range. Almost rocket science, delivering up to 4.6 Gbit/s on a short range, around the year 2017 already.