How do these antennas work?

[Flux Azreal]

I know there's a lot of different antennas but I want to understand them more. I recently bought this network card with antennas

https://a.co/d/ah2S6xG

and I've been playing with the antennas for a bit and the results have been really weird and not consistant, I would get like 700mbps if i twist it a little or 300 if I twist it again, and I can't figure out a pattern. I don't know if it's public what kind of antennas they are, I presume there's some omnidirectional ones that don't care if if you twist it and directional ones that do. I'm not sure which these are and I can't find a manual thats relevant. Is there an optimal position of these? They can also bend like 45degrees or 90 and is there a way to optimize it for a certain position? I want to optimize it for the position of my modem

 

[manikyath]

i believe in theory you want the antenna's pointing towards the direction of the wap with their side (so.. pointing 90° away from it), and have a 90° corner between each other.

 

that's ofcourse theory.. and if there was a "best way to put antenna", those analog TV antenna's from back in the day wouldnt be 34-way adjustable.

[Poinkachu]

11 minutes ago, Flux Azreal said:

I know there's a lot of different antennas but I want to understand them more. I recently bought this network card with antennas

https://a.co/d/ah2S6xG

and I've been playing with the antennas for a bit and the results have been really weird and not consistant, I would get like 700mbps if i twist it a little or 300 if I twist it again, and I can't figure out a pattern. I don't know if it's public what kind of antennas they are, I presume there's some omnidirectional ones that don't care if if you twist it and directional ones that do. I'm not sure which these are and I can't find a manual thats relevant. Is there an optimal position of these? They can also bend like 45degrees or 90 and is there a way to optimize it for a certain position? I want to optimize it for the position of my modem

 

https://www.kurthelectronic.de/fachwissen/how-do-wi-fi-antennas-work-and-what-are-they-good-for/?lang=en

[Flux Azreal]

14 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

https://www.kurthelectronic.de/fachwissen/how-do-wi-fi-antennas-work-and-what-are-they-good-for/?lang=en

Amazing! Thank you so much for this, this answers everything

[Flux Azreal]

18 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i believe in theory you want the antenna's pointing towards the direction of the wap with their side (so.. pointing 90° away from it), and have a 90° corner between each other.

 

that's ofcourse theory.. and if there was a "best way to put antenna", those analog TV antenna's from back in the day wouldnt be 34-way adjustable.

I see! Thanks this answers it!