Re: The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture

Rich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/15/26 10:13, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>> On 2026-08-14 18:35, c186282 wrote:
>>> On 8/14/26 19:33, rbowman wrote:
>>>> <https://www.xda-developers.com/the-best-wi-fi-upgrade-wasnt-a-new- 
>>>> router-it-was-moving-some-furniture/>
>>>
>>>    Heh heh ... YEP !
>>>
>>>    Esp with 5ghz.
>>>
>>>    Had a little remote unit, crappy crappy connection.     
>>> Literally moved it six inches and suddenly a pretty damned GOOD 
>>> connection.  Not sure WHAT in the path was blocking the wifi, but 
>>> even that tiny move got the obstruction out of the path.
>> 
>> Classic multipath interference.  Signals arriving by different paths 
>> (some of which may involve reflections) arrive with different phase 
>> and may cancel each other out.
> 
>   Yep.
> 
>   And the higher the freq, the worse !

Higher frequency matters not for multi-path interference, destructive 
interference is still destructive interference.  What is worse for 
higher frequency is propagation losses (the signal is weaker at the 
same distance from the antenna for an identical transmit power).
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