Re: Dipole v. Omni

dold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Now hold the pencil vertically. It radiates to all points on
>> the compass, but not up or down. That's very handy... it isn't
>> so much pointing the maximum signal anywhere in particular that
>> is important as it is pointing the minimum signal at some place
>> where you won't ever have a receiver!
>
>Except for the upstairs/downstairs installations where questions pop up
>here at least once a week.

In many cases, horizontal would probably be better than vertical.
Of course, at 2.4GHz there is so much multipath in most cases that
polarization is almost random anyway.

>Broadside to each other is the desired
>orientation for a pair of common dipoles, whether that is vertical or
>horizontal, or someplace in between.

If there are many clients, it probably is an absolute truth.
But in many case people just want to be able to go anywhere in
the house with a single laptop. In that case it might be best
to position the two antennas opposite each other.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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