Wifi connection worse because of cooling pad

[TonyDC]

Hello,

I've had my laptop (lenovo y510p) for 8 months now and never had much problems. But recently I noticed I needed a cooling pad, so I got one. It's from Conrad, it's alu and has a lot of holes in it for the air, it really looked like a good design. But after just a day I noticed that it was limiting my wifi connection.
E.G. I have a normal download speed of 1.4 Mb/s, then when I put my laptop on my cooling pad it goes down to ~300Kb/s, and when I lift my laptop again of the cooling pad it goes back to 1.4 Mb/s. The ping with cooling pad is also worse as without the cooling pad.

Is there a way that I can fix this and keep the cooling pad?

 

[vesp3r]

wait what.... its aluminium?
If the pad is aluminium then it blocks your internal antena and thats why you get bad signal
I always go for plastic cooling pads

 

[TonyDC]

Yeah well that explains it thanks! I already thought it had something to do with it being aluminium... Gotta look for a new one.

 

[TonyDC]

wait what.... its aluminium?
If the pad is aluminium then it blocks your internal antena and thats why you get bad signal
I always go for plastic cooling pads

Do you maybe have some links or examples of plastic cooling pads? Because I can't find much.
And is a metal mesh also bad? Because those I find a lot.

 

[vesp3r]

those i give you are not suggestions its just to see what would i look for if i wanted to buy:
http/www.amazon.com/AVANTEK-Laptop-Notebook-Cooling-2000RPM/dp/B00R5VMPW8/ref=sr_1_40?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1425802587&sr=1-40
http/www.amazon.com/Fosmon-Laptop-Notebook-Cooling-Lights/dp/B008RN1YZM/ref=sr_1_56?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1425802715&sr=1-56
and my current pad -> http/www.amazon.in/E-Table-Portable-Laptop-Table-Cooling/dp/B00FRK9N1A