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I bought a R7000 with non-removable antennas?!?
OK, I bought a used R7000 from eBay and not getting the coverage I was hoping for so, I was thinking of purchasing some larger antennas for it, but when I looked at the back of router I was shocked t...
See the following website
https://fccid.io/PY318300420/Internal-Photos/Internal-photos-4107460
The latest version of the R7000 has non-removeable antennas. I would guess this is the cut production cost. Wish I would have known this before I purchased.
Smegtrek wrote:
Please take a look at the screenshot attached. There is no way to remove the antennas.
I cannot see the picture in enough detail to see what you can do. Not enough detail.
However, I do have an R7000P lying around and the fitting looks very similar. The difference is that the fitting where the antenna goes into the router is ridged to make it easy to grip and rotate the screw-in bit.
I assume that you have tried a gentle twist on the bit that screws into the router.
I cannot see the picture in enough detail to see what you can do. Not enough detail.
Look at "screenshot_8" attached to my first reply, not the one attached to my original post.
Smegtrek wrote:
I cannot see the picture in enough detail to see what you can do. Not enough detail.
Look at "screenshot_8" attached to my first reply, not the one attached to my original post.
That's the one I looked at.
On the R7000P I have, there is a ridged "barrel" that screws into the router. It looks like you have a recessed socket that is a part of the router's casing. The bit that unscrews on the R7000P would go into that.
The manual for the R7000 suggests that an antenna for that should also have a ridged barrel.
See the following website
https://fccid.io/PY318300420/Internal-Photos/Internal-photos-4107460
The latest version of the R7000 has non-removeable antennas. I would guess this is the cut production cost. Wish I would have known this before I purchased.
Bummer. The manual is clearly misleading and out of date..
I'd send it back if I could. But the idea that better antennae might beef up these things may be optimistic.