[SOLVED] Wants aftermarket wireless antenna for laptop

[vigilant19]

I have a Linux Acer laptop whose wireless capability is weak, meaning the wireless signals it receives are slow, even when close to our wireless modem-router.

What is an effective after market antenna that would enable my laptop to easily receive wireless signal from longer distances resulting in greater bandwidth also?

We will be traveling soon and I want to be able to receive wireless from a variety of sources.

Thank you.

 

[kanewolf]

I have a Linux Acer laptop whose wireless capability is weak, meaning the wireless signals it receives are slow, even when close to our wireless modem-router.

What is an effective after market antenna that would enable my laptop to easily receive wireless signal from longer distances resulting in greater bandwidth also?

We will be traveling soon and I want to be able to receive wireless from a variety of sources.

Thank you.

Performance is not usually an antenna issue. That is usually the WIFI chip hardware issue. What model laptop do you have?

 

[vigilant19]

Acer Aspire 1 A 114 31 series, Model N17Q4. Thank you.

 

[kanewolf]

Acer Aspire 1 A 114 31 series, Model N17Q4. Thank you.

This page -- https://www.acer.com/ac/en/SI/content/model/NX.SHXEX.050 Says that your laptop has 802.11ac wireless. That means it should support 5Ghz WIFI and at least 200Mbit throughput.
You could have poor support for the hardware in Linux.