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Direction of WiFi antenna

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Mar 15, 20269283 views
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I have a Netgear WG311v3 WiFi card. There are ceiling mounted routers in the corridor outside. Some people try to orient the antennas of the router towards their rooms so that they get better signal strength. I am not sure if it makes a difference. Does signal strength have a bearing on the directi…

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Fix for: Direction of WiFi antenna

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Most routers have omni-directional antennas (which send the signal in all directions except in the direction of the "stick" - actually some signal even goes a little up there, but the main part goes "around"). So, no in most cases. If the router is …

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