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

From Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture
Date 2026-08-15 07:13 -0700
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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.

>    The higher the freq, the more it acts like ordinary
>    light, and less like 'radio'.

Yes, for sure!

-- 
Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California

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The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-14 23:33 +0000
  Re: The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-14 21:35 -0400
    Re: The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-08-15 07:13 -0700
      Re: The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-16 02:14 -0400

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