Router Antenna Positions - What You're Doing Wrong

In this video, I detail how to position the antennas of a router to optimize the WiFi signal strength in a home or office.

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0:00 Introduction
1:35 How do router antennas work?
3:45 How you should configure your router’s antennas
8:25 How to measure the WiFi signal from your antennas
9:39 Summary and conclusion

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NOTE: This video provides instructions for configuring your router's antennas if you have a non-beamforming router. If you have a router that supports beamforming, I made a separate video detailing how to configure your router's antennas:    • Router Antenna Positions With BEAMFOR...  

How to position your router’s antennas
When it comes to your router’s antennas, it’s important to understand a few key concepts:

-Your routers are omnidirectional, meaning the wireless signal from your router is broadcast in all directions with an equal amount of signal strength

-The wireless signal is broadcast from your router’s antennas in a direction that’s perpendicular to the alignment of the antenna. In other words, if a router is aligned vertically, it’ll broadcast its wireless signal on a horizontal plane. If an antenna is aligned horizontally, it’ll broadcast its wireless signal in a vertical plane

Understanding the basics of how a router’s antennas work will allow you to position the antennas in a configuration that maximizes the wireless signal in your home. With that said, everyone may have a slightly different antenna configuration based upon the patterns of internet usage in the home.

Conclusion
If you have any questions about how to orient your router’s antennas, or you’d like to share your experiences with the WiFi signal in your home, please leave a comment below.