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o holes that you made so that the antenna is inside the curve of the large rectangle. 9 If your wireless router has two antennae, make a second parabolic extender to attach to the second antenna.Converting A SATA Drive Into An External USB Drive 1 Before you b uy an external USB hard drive enclosure for your SATA hard drive, acquire the data transfer rate of the SATA drive. Buy a hard dri ve enclosure that supports the transfer rate of the hard drive. For example, if the external USB hard drive enclosure supports a t metal background ransfer rate of up to 960 mbps and the hard drive has a data transfer rate of 1260 mbps, the SATA drive might not function properl y because some of the functions will be blocked or slowed down. 2 Take the hard drive cage out of the external hard drive enclosur PurplePixie e. Connect the SATA cable from the hard drive enclosure to the SATA port on the back of the SATA drive. Now connect the 4-pin powe .
er; it does not matter whether you attach the USB cable while the computer is off or on. Let the computer recognize the new hardwa re. Test the connection of the hard drive by transferring some files back and forth from the external hard drive and the main hard drive on your computer.1 Setup the wireless access point. This may be a wireless router that connects to your high speed Internet modem, or it may be a wireless bridge that connects to your current router or switch. Check the manual for the default wireless n 3d heart model etwork name. 2 Install the wireless cards into the computers. Follow the enclosed directions carefully. Some cards require the sof tware to be installed before the card, others require the card to be installed first. 3 Double click the wireless icon in the Wind PurplePixie ows system tray at the bottom right of the screen. This will bring up a list of available wireless networks. Click the name of you .
