Anonymous 路 5mo 路 No.242
Spent the last 3 days designing these. My wifi reception is now excellent. 馃摱
Anonymous 路 5mo 路 No.243
The relevant OpenSCAD and STL files: gemini://lyk.so/systems/laptop/reform_antennas_mod.tar.gz
gemini://lyk.so/systems/laptop/reform_antennas_mod.tar.gz
Anonymous 路 5mo 路 No.266
how far away is your router?? that thing could pick up a signal from the next town over
Anonymous 路 5mo 路 No.272
Two dynamics at play: one, the Reform's default wifi antenna placement sucks. There's a reason most laptops put their antennas alongside the screen instead of alongside the mainboard. Two, my wifi airspace is unusually noisy. There are a large number of routers all competing for dominance in my airspace, one of which appears to be on the other side of the wall where I had been losing my router's signal.
Maybe this particular upgrade was overkill, but I think overkill is, in this situation, better than "not enough"-kill.
Anonymous 路 5mo 路 No.283
i tried to find some diagrams or schematics of that side of the reform to see what you mounted it to to attach it to the body of the laptop and i stumbled across a thread you already participated in about the wifi range issues hah
Anonymous 路 5mo 路 No.285
but i am curious what you have done to secure it to the body and how the actual antenna part comes through
Anonymous 路 5mo 路 No.288
@285 On both sides of the laptop there is an acrylic plate with cutouts for the mainboard's ports. This is fastened onto the aluminum body using two M2x4 screws each. So, as mentioned in the thread you found, I replaced one of the M2x4 screws on each panel with an M2x6, giving me about 2mm of extra height with which to secure the design to the laptop. The antenna's wire passes through some notches I filed into the sides of the power port and HDMI port cutouts on the two acrylic panels.
