I'm sharing a house with some friends and I'm in the bedroom right up in the attic. The router is right down on the ground floor and I get connectivity issues.
I've found that if I adjust the two antennas on my network card I can sometimes get a much better signal.
Is there an optimum angle to get the best connection or is it academic? Should they be pointing towards the router? Should they be spread into a V shape or stick out parallel to each other?
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It should be set so the waves go in the direction you want them to go. One would think that the waves emanate from the "pole" because that is what the pictures always show
|))))but in reality the pole is only one connection point for the creation of the airborne electrical wave. The "ground plane" is the other connection point.|_)))So the waves emanate out from the pole and the ground plane.(( _\Google images of ground planes
Fixed: When you see all the VHF and UHF receivers being used in theatres and DJs and all, for some reason unknown to me, they always use the
\ /shape, I assume that helps receive as the signals bounce around so when "line of sight" gets blocked, it still gets there.))) \__/ (((Or maybe it works with the ground plane in some way?Almost always when you're trying to get omni-directionality
(((|)))they always go with straight up. Whenever testing any of this stuff, I have found that the most consistent results for omni-directional and movement is straight up. If you have a back ground plane that changes it.I don't know. I thought I had an epiphany, when I look at a Tesla or large visible electrical output, radio waves in a sense are very tiny powered higher frequency similarities. I could see the Tesla.
For more epiphanies, it took me days before the light bulb went off that Wi-Fi adapters are not just receivers, they are a transmitter/receiver like the router is.