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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:
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 The manual is clearly misleading and out of date..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.