Uconsole AIO V2 CM5 Very low wifi signal

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After installing the HG AIO V2 expansion board, I noticed a huge drop on my wifi signal. I am 2 meters away from my router and I only have one bar of wifi signal. I tried a different antenna and still having the same issue. Antenna connectors both to the CM5 and antenna port are correctly pluged. Anyone had the same problem? Thanks.

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you sure you’re using non sma-rp antennas? most wifi antenna are sma-rp and the hackergadgets mount is regular sma.

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Try another antenna cable ?, you can get bad ones, wrong male/female polarity, wrong type ipex1/ipex4 (tiny size difference !). Use the shortest cable possible. Antenna connectors damaged ?.Does your config.txt contain dtparam=2 to ensure your CM5 is using the socket and not onboard antenna ?. Is power management OFF ?? (should be). Antenna too close together ?, leave a space between them if possible.

Also try :-

iwconfig wlan0 …
Gives me (5 meters away from router) 5.54Ghz, 24Mb/s, link quality 66/70, sig level -44 dbm

iw dev wlan0 link …
Gives me freq 5540, signal -43 dbm, rx bitrate 390Mbit/s, tx bitrate 433.3Mbit/s

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Thanks for the reply, Rex. Yes, it is SMA male, non-rp.Cable was damaged for any reason I’m not figuring out. I should have checked that in the first place, but the cable was working previously and I was not even close suspicious about that.

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Thanks for the reply. Cable was damaged for any reason I’m not figuring out. I should have checked that in the first place, but the cable was working previously and I was not even close suspicious about that.

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Possibly trapped in the case halves at some point.