These modems would often slot into a Mini PCI-e slot in the netbook motherboard. [delokaver] figured out how to use these 3G cards over USB instead. It’s actually a fairly straightforward hack.

Get Extra USB Ports With a USB PCIe Expansion Card ... Just note that the card needs a full-sized PCIe x16 slot working in x8 mode. If you don't have a full-size secondary PCIe slot that works ...

If you really don’t know what else to do with your empty PCIe slots, consider adding more USB ports via PCIe. Whether your motherboard lacked ports out of the box or you plugged them all up with ...

PCIe lanes are data channels within a PCIe slot, which is used for transmitting and receiving data between the motherboard ...

This is splitting a PCIe slot into multiple PCIe links ... the third component is a USB3 cable with USB-A connectors on both ends. For a hacker designing something unconventional with PCIe ...