Router antennae position help.

[Mahbub]

i have asus ac58u. i downloaded two manuals from support page, one of them says for best coverage i should position the side antennae at 45 degrees, another manual says for best coverage i should position side antennae at 90 degree, which is correct. please help. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'm not an RF engineer, but from what I gather with the antenna type the router uses, the signal propagates in a donut-like shape. So 90 degrees is ideal if you want the best coverage for a one-story building or if you want to only cover a single floor. 45 degrees is if you want to cover more floors.

 

Depending on how big your home is though, it likely doesn't matter.

[Mahbub]

21 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

I'm not an RF engineer, but from what I gather with how the antenna type the router uses, the signal propagates in a donut-like shape. So 90 degrees is ideal if you want the best coverage for a one-story building or if you want to only cover a single floor. 45 degrees is if you want to cover more floors.

 

Depending on how big your home is though, it likely doesn't matter.

i wanna cover a single floor only.. but the router is like 1 meter above the pc.. in that case should i make outer antennae 45 or 90? i wanna make it 90 cz of my OCD, but which angle is better in my case?

 

[nick name]

Well if we are still operating under the doughnut assumption then 90 degress.  Also if it's close to the PC why don't you plug the PC into an ethernet port?

[Mahbub]

16 minutes ago, nick name said:

Well if we are still operating under the doughnut assumption then 90 degress.  Also if it's close to the PC why don't you plug the PC into an ethernet port?

okk made it 90.. i dont plug because then there will be extra wire on the wall and it looks bad.. i have ocd haha moreover i am getting same speed and latency with the archer t6e wifi card as i got with cable

[Alex Atkin UK]

6 hours ago, Mahbub said:

okk made it 90.. i dont plug because then there will be extra wire on the wall and it looks bad.. i have ocd haha moreover i am getting same speed and latency with the archer t6e wifi card as i got with cable

Highly unlikely you are having "consistently" the same speed and latency.

 

The point with WiFi is that at any given moment you can have glitches in performance, a wire avoids that entirely.

Also from a purely logical standpoint, why emit more radiation into the air if you don't actually need to?