Up Squared Wifi antenna does not attach to Wifi module
Bart van Oort
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Dear Up Community,
I'm currently working on a project at my university, for which we have purchased an Up Squared, together with the metal fanless chassis and the Intel Wireless AC3165 M.2 WiFi and BT module. My problem is with the latter. When it arrived, I noticed there was one antenna, but two spots on the AC3165 where the antenna could be mounted. A quick Google search led me to another post on this forum, which confirmed that it should be attached to the spot labelled 'main'. But when I then tried to attach the antenna to the AC3165, it just would not fit. The contacts are able to line up, but it's impossible to make them 'click' and stay together...
I've attached a close up picture of the contact on the antenna. I currently still have the AC3165 attached to the Up Squared board itself inside the metal chassis, which is now barely even able to receive the WiFi from my router only a metre away. I want to be able to attach the antenna, but I don't see any way how. As a side note about the metal fanless chassis, I don't see a good looking place to stick the board of the antenna to. What should I do?
I'm currently working on a project at my university, for which we have purchased an Up Squared, together with the metal fanless chassis and the Intel Wireless AC3165 M.2 WiFi and BT module. My problem is with the latter. When it arrived, I noticed there was one antenna, but two spots on the AC3165 where the antenna could be mounted. A quick Google search led me to another post on this forum, which confirmed that it should be attached to the spot labelled 'main'. But when I then tried to attach the antenna to the AC3165, it just would not fit. The contacts are able to line up, but it's impossible to make them 'click' and stay together...
I've attached a close up picture of the contact on the antenna. I currently still have the AC3165 attached to the Up Squared board itself inside the metal chassis, which is now barely even able to receive the WiFi from my router only a metre away. I want to be able to attach the antenna, but I don't see any way how. As a side note about the metal fanless chassis, I don't see a good looking place to stick the board of the antenna to. What should I do?
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the image is corrupted, could you please share it again? Try a smaller image and jpg format, thanks!
Alternatively, could you please confirm which is the connector from the link below?
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1uQEaHFXXXXcJapXXq6xXFXXXA/4in-4-IPX-IPEX-I-PEX-U-FL-MHF4-to-IPX-MHF4-RF-0-81mm-cable.jpg -
Hi dcleri, this topic was accidentally posted as a duplicate of: https://up-community.org/forum/public-up2hw/2464-up-squared-wifi-antenna-won-t-attach-to-wifi-module and I had already reported the topic as such. On the linked topic I already got the answers I needed. The connector had been broken and the WiFi kit actually also turned out to be the one for the plastic chassis, which I didn't notice when I ordered. I called up Texim Europe and they sent me the right kit. I literally just finished assembling it, this time successfully.
About the image btw: I had the same problem in the other thread and the image was in .jpg format. Simply removing the attachment and reuploading it resulted in exactly the same corrupted image, so I converted it to .png and uploaded that, which did work. Could be a bug in the forum software?
