Excellent class in upper-class British King's English: with a tear-down and tighten the old WAP54G war-horse antenna mounts thrown in for free. If you are comfortable that the antenna-mounts have not twisted so as to sever the internal antenna leads: from the outside - without cracking the case - you can go ahead and screw down the nuts with a 9/16" deep socket wrench. Obviously - you want to do this by hand and not use a socket-wrench driver handle. The nuts themselves are shallow and slightly recessed - but not impossible to grab with pliers. A box-end 9/16" wrench would also work. But the 9/16" socket supplies absolute control with no slipping or knuckle-busting. And your fingers can sense the exact amount to tighten as the the nut (and maybe a thin washer?) bear down on the ineffectual internal-tooth lock-washer that CEO John Chambers (Cisco CEO) used to purportedly stop the loosening from happening in the first place. Everything about the consumer design and assembly of this unit sucks. The design was meant to place the WAP54G into a family of consumer devices that would be stacked. I've never seen them stacked. But as FastasFunk points out - the WAP54G is a warhorse. And when have a guest who can't connect an old PC to your new Cable-service router - you just whip out the WAP54G and they can log on. I've never sat down and worked this out - but WAP54G security is probably not the best. A final note on cracking the case after removing to two little screws. I found that favoring one side over the other with a little bit of rocking eventually got the case open.
Thank you for posting. Thankfully the internal wiring had not broken away yet. Just had to get access to tighten the nut inside the case.
Excellent class in upper-class British King's English: with a tear-down and tighten the old WAP54G war-horse antenna mounts thrown in for free. If you are comfortable that the antenna-mounts have not twisted so as to sever the internal antenna leads: from the outside - without cracking the case - you can go ahead and screw down the nuts with a 9/16" deep socket wrench. Obviously - you want to do this by hand and not use a socket-wrench driver handle. The nuts themselves are shallow and slightly recessed - but not impossible to grab with pliers. A box-end 9/16" wrench would also work. But the 9/16" socket supplies absolute control with no slipping or knuckle-busting. And your fingers can sense the exact amount to tighten as the the nut (and maybe a thin washer?) bear down on the ineffectual internal-tooth lock-washer that CEO John Chambers (Cisco CEO) used to purportedly stop the loosening from happening in the first place. Everything about the consumer design and assembly of this unit sucks. The design was meant to place the WAP54G into a family of consumer devices that would be stacked. I've never seen them stacked. But as FastasFunk points out - the WAP54G is a warhorse. And when have a guest who can't connect an old PC to your new Cable-service router - you just whip out the WAP54G and they can log on. I've never sat down and worked this out - but WAP54G security is probably not the best. A final note on cracking the case after removing to two little screws. I found that favoring one side over the other with a little bit of rocking eventually got the case open.
if you have to resorder the antenna lead test to make sure you don't have the braid and center lead shorted
This a good post
What Voltage of the power suplly
12 volts, 500 mA
This is what you need to get, antennas with the bracket included. www.amazon.com/LINKSYS-Antenna-Bracket-Router-Connectors/dp/B009GBA69Y