• pelya@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    In the consumer-grade WiFi router all these antennas are omni-directional.

    Unless you see something like this sticking out from your router, there will be no difference if you fold your antennas in a different way.

    The only reason these antennas are sticking up from the router body is to lift them above the table surface, so your router will keep working even if you put it onto a metal table.

    directional antenna

    • SteveTech@programming.dev
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      2 年前

      I think they were more attempting to reference antenna phasing rather than direction. Which can help apparently, but I’ve never seen a difference.