Does it make sense that the lower a router is to the floor, the worse my reception?
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Does it make sense that the lower a router is to the floor, the worse my reception? When my router is on the floor directly, I get terrible reception (even none) in my room which is 40 feet away. When it is a foot up, it gets much better. Does this make any physical sense? What it the typical geome…
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All the above answers miss the mark a little. The closer your antenna is to the floor, the closer it is a ground plane. In electromagnetics, the ground plane is very important - it determines the total performance of the antenna system. Sometimes a …
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