Are Your WiFI Router Antennas Pointed Wrong? #wifi #wifirouter #homenetwork #homewifi #wifiantenna

Router antennas radiate WiFi along the horizontal, with dead zones above and below. Whenever you bend the antennas, the radiation pattern moves with the antenna, along with the dead zones.

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The antennas are called omnidirectional dipole antennas and the pattern they make is in the shape of a doughnut, or torus.

In a multilevel home the position of the antennas is important, to eliminate possible dead zones.

Routers with two antennas emit two WiFi streams, and can overlap or be angled to cover larger areas.

Because of the torus shapes, the dead zones still exist above and below. If you angle the antennas too far, you'll start to create dead zones along the horizontal, which is bad for WiFi clients on the same level.

For clients on a different level you'll want to angle the antenna so that the flat part is parallel with the client, radiating through the ceiling and floor.

In a single level home you'll always want the antennas pointing straight up, so that they primarily radiate along the horizontal in all directions.

There's also routers with numerous antennas that incorporate advanced MIMO or Multiple-in multiple-out technology, but that'll have to be for a different video. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOhqU_Ilqk