Hit 6 months of working from beaches in Bali before I realized my WiFi setup was backwards

I was sitting at a cafe in Canggu last week with my fourth signal booster of the trip when a local told me the best connection comes from facing the router antenna sideways, not up. Has anyone else been doing something basic totally wrong this whole time overseas?

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jennifer_mitchell532d ago

Wait, so you had the antenna sideways and a local told you to point it up? That's the exact opposite of what everyone's been telling me for years. I guess I've been doing it wrong in my apartment this whole time too then.

juliahall2d ago

Actually the router antenna should be vertical for best range, not sideways.

jesse_nguyen2d ago

Agreed fully, same thing happened to me. I spent weeks with my antenna sideways wondering why my signal was crap in the back room. Once I flipped it vertical, the range literally doubled and my dead zones disappeared.