[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] eddymonti:
Before I begin, I would like to state that my prime's WiFi is very acceptable. The farther you get from the router, the more the signal drops in comparison to other devices, but until now (due to the layout of my apartment and everywhere else I have been) it has never affected my browsing/video-watching experience.

However, there are a lot of people out there who suffer a lot from this (maybe bigger house, or prime has below prime-average wifi performance). And I can't help but think that I have been very lucky with my prime, and would hate to be in their shoes...

So... to those not so fortunate (or those who want to have the best wifi signal they can possibly get, even if what they have is enough) I wanted to find a way to improve their prime's WIFI experience (and maybe GPS's and BT's as well).

So, after all the threads about wifi, bt, gps... the ones where they even open the prime and mod it drastically (like making antenas pop out of prime); I have been thinking about a simple way to block (or bypass) the backplate's signal jamming in an efficient, low profile way. Meaning, you would just need to focus on the part where the gps and wifi antenas are (top of prime), without having to open the prime.

There were threads where someone would place some stuff near them and it would affect the signal (for better or for worse). So, i have been trying different materials.

I have been testing a lot of things. The results varied, but no big improvements were seen. Until... a thought hit me.

The backplate is behind the prime, so... we have the front clear of signal shielding. So i thought: What if I place something where the antennas are, but on the front of the tablet (the black part). Something to 'attract' the wifi signal to the front, so it is channeled to the antennas without having to pass through the back plate (passing from the front instead).

I started trying with some high profile stuff, and when results came, I focused on reducing the size/thickness of what i used. The final thing that i need to do is to use something as close to the black color of the prime as I can. Maybe painting it with a black marker hehehe. We'll see...

These are the results of initial testings (with images):

Then I placed thin metal pieces on yellow tape and placed it on prime:​

Yes, that is exactly what I am doing. With trial and error I get better and better results. I also get at least a 10db increase which is a huge boost.

For the first tries I used one of those things that carry the pills of some medical products. The round things are the slots where the pills are initially. It has a very thin metallic cover on the other side of the plastic part. (It was the quickest thing I could find to start testing lol)

The other thing which I covered with yellow tape was small pieces of thin metallic parts from old floppy disks I had around...

Though I would like to know what would be the best material to 'capture' the wifi signal. Then we could use even smaller and thinner stuff. My goal is to have something that is almost invisible on the prime, yet would give me the 10+db increase.

About making a video: I would love to make one, but unfortunately the only thing I have that can record video is the prime itself lol...