Ipad 2 wifi seems weak after repair

I recently did a screen replacement on my 2011 version ipad 2. During the repair I did tear the power flex cable which I will replace shortly. Though I was careful of the wifi antenna at the bottom, I don't believe I ripped the antenna, and I'm pretty sure it was laying the same was as when I took it apart. But what seems to be happening where I think I should be getting full wifi reception I'm getting only 1-2 bars. I've had two people with ipad 2 compare our wifi in the same location and again they would get 3 and I was getting 2 bars.
I guess my question would be, does anyone know what could of happened? Could it be the glass replacement I got from Amazon depleting the signal? Like I said I peeled the wifi antenna off the old glass during the repair, but did it fairly close to the frame so I did not rip or damage the antenna. Would anyone recommend to replace the antenna? Or tough it out? What could be done?
Thank you.

I also left feed back. I thought apple was also on this did not realize it was just user to user with change. Thanks Carolyn!
Russ
Carolyn Samit wrote:
Hi,
Considering this us a user to user forum, not Apple, an alternative is to provide feedback to Apple here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Carolyn

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