| ▲ | tom_alexander 2 hours ago |
| > PS: Yesterday I opened the case and disconnected WiFi antenna. Just in case. While this couldn't hurt, it also won't stop the TV from being able to connect to wifi. I ran my desktop without an antenna attached for months. The speed noticeably improved when I attached an antenna but it was fine for browsing the web and downloading software updates without one. |
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| ▲ | dreamcompiler 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Better to replace the wifi antenna with a dummy load. |
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| ▲ | gcr an hour ago | parent [-] | | OP means that some WiFi antennae are soldered to the motherboard and cannot be easily removed. When building my PC, I got a PCI WiFi card but it turns out there was also a direct WiFi network interface built into the motherboard somehow | | |
| ▲ | zamalek an hour ago | parent [-] | | They would be traces with pretty obvious patterns and easy to cut. But I don't the GP comment was talking about that; I have also used WiFi without an antenna (PCB or otherwise), and it was also slow for me. A dummy load is probably the best idea: an impedance mismatch would obliterate any chance of anything working (including Bluetooth fwiw). | | |
| ▲ | dreamcompiler an hour ago | parent [-] | | The point of a dummy load is to match the impedance so that all the radiative energy gets turned into heat and the transmitter is none the wiser. | | |
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| ▲ | stogot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You didn’t explain your point. How does a tv connect to WiFi without a WiFI antena |
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| ▲ | koyote an hour ago | parent [-] | | You don't need an antenna. You can think of an antenna as simply being a signal booster. That being said, without an antenna it is highly improbable that it could still find an open WiFi AP to connect to (especially if you don't have one in your house). |
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