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I think I fucked up by cutting the pins of my ESP32-Wroom-32D.I had installed NUKI Hub and had a perfect WiFi signal. Perfect ping. No timeouts.Then I designed a case for it and 3D printed it. To keep it as compact as possible, I cut the 30 pins of the board. Then after a while I started to notice connection issues. Dropped connections and slow ping replies. First I didn't think I messed up and just thought I had a bad ESP32. And since I still had a spare one, I re-installed everything again. Once I confirmed everything was up and running, I went ahead and cut the pins to place it in the custom box. Immediately I noticed the difference in network stability. It is then I noticed the pattern..So.. I guess there were some pins that were responsible for the Wifi signal? If that is the case, can I just extend them by soldering some wires to it? But I'm not really sure which one I need. I found this pinout reference, but that isn't really helping me.
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