GM! TIL, positioning of antennae on your wifi router matters. All vertical is not good.
Having antennas at different angles:
* Improves reliability
* Reduces dead spots
* Helps devices regardless of how their antennas are oriented
I'm going to test with: | | \ -
On the pic: GL.iNET Flint 2 (GL-MT6000)
Vendor firmware is openly OpenWrt with vendor GUI added, but not replacing OpenWrt.
Of course I flashed new OpenWrt, with a custom build from pesa1234.
Repo: https://github.com/pesa1234/MT6000_cust_build
Forum: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/mt6000-custom-build-with-luci-and-some-optimization-kernel-6-12-x/185241
Why I use this combo?
Well, a person I admired very much recommended this setup to me
when I asked for a modern anti bufferbloat setup on Twitter. His name was Dave Taht. I followed his work in combatting #bufferbloat for years. His dedication resulted in the whole planet slowly making more and more use of technologies and setups which improve network latency. He passed earlier this year and I'm not likely to change this soon.
I’m using a GL router. Are they by the same manufacturer? I connect it to my router and my NAS is connected to it. It helps me bypass ISP’s restrictions on router configurability.
The fact about the antenna was interesting. I’ma tweak the antenna now to see how it affects the coverage.
This is the manufacturer's European store: https://store-eu.gl-inet.com
I'm not sure it's better, I tested one problematic location and it wasn't. better, but this location is very strange.
Yeah, that’s the brand I have.
