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FormatC
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Oct 13, 2021
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*8500 Antenna Came Apart How to fix?

Hi there long time Netgear user (My first newly bought router was my WNDR4500) anyway I bought a used R8500 router online and it was packed too well as in I was unwrapping it from it's bubble wrap (i...
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    plemans
    Oct 14, 2021

    Just curious. It had to have come out half decently for the connections to be intact. so it'd have to go back in half decently. 

     

    My understanding is the board is there because its an amplified antenna. 

     

    the housing is just a protective. you don't *need* it but it should go back on without to much force or it wouldnt have come off. 

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plemans
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Oct 13, 2021

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