Hi all,
I remember a long time ago I was able to find some sites that showed typical antenna signal patterns of various routers as well as providing some advice on how to position them and arrange the antennas for best signal transmission.
Newer routers and access points apparently seem to be dropping external antennas and may or may not include stands or mounting holes such that you can lay them flat, mount them on a wall, or stand them up on a desk. There do not seem to be any major recommendations as to which way to place them nor are any distinctions being made as to a particular user's situation.
The end result is that you just put them where they are and hope for the best but that has to be less than optimal, right? Laying a router flat with the antennas in plane has to be throwing out a different pattern than standing it up on its side, right?
So is there any way to see "published" antenna patterns on the more modern crop of internal antenna devices and position them for best reception or is it really not a problem anymore?
I have a Linksys E4200 in my office upstairs laying flat. Directly below that on the entertainment unit is a D-Link DAP-1522 also flat. I'm getting around 33Mbps between the two which isn't great and, incorrect configuration notwithstanding, I'm wondering if the antenna patterns are just out of sync with the two being two parallel planes and not really intersecting. Would it be better to have them perpendicular or in-plane?
With little to no details about antenna patterns, I'm not sure how to best position them without lots of experimentation. If there were graphs I could check, that might make it easier.
Any thoughts on this?
I should add that the two are connected via N-only and the channels set to auto (20/40). I've also got them connected via WPA2 AES/TKIP which I should probably change to AES-only to help througput as that may be my biggest bottleneck.
Thanks,
Kevin
I remember a long time ago I was able to find some sites that showed typical antenna signal patterns of various routers as well as providing some advice on how to position them and arrange the antennas for best signal transmission.
Newer routers and access points apparently seem to be dropping external antennas and may or may not include stands or mounting holes such that you can lay them flat, mount them on a wall, or stand them up on a desk. There do not seem to be any major recommendations as to which way to place them nor are any distinctions being made as to a particular user's situation.
The end result is that you just put them where they are and hope for the best but that has to be less than optimal, right? Laying a router flat with the antennas in plane has to be throwing out a different pattern than standing it up on its side, right?
So is there any way to see "published" antenna patterns on the more modern crop of internal antenna devices and position them for best reception or is it really not a problem anymore?
I have a Linksys E4200 in my office upstairs laying flat. Directly below that on the entertainment unit is a D-Link DAP-1522 also flat. I'm getting around 33Mbps between the two which isn't great and, incorrect configuration notwithstanding, I'm wondering if the antenna patterns are just out of sync with the two being two parallel planes and not really intersecting. Would it be better to have them perpendicular or in-plane?
With little to no details about antenna patterns, I'm not sure how to best position them without lots of experimentation. If there were graphs I could check, that might make it easier.
Any thoughts on this?
I should add that the two are connected via N-only and the channels set to auto (20/40). I've also got them connected via WPA2 AES/TKIP which I should probably change to AES-only to help througput as that may be my biggest bottleneck.
Thanks,
Kevin
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