{"id":51,"date":"2011-05-30T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-08-23T05:38:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T05:38:24","slug":"laptop-orientation-and-data-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/laptop-orientation-and-data-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Orientation and Data Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a basement and do not get very strong WiMAX signals so I have placed my WiFi router outside my home. Now the distance between my laptop (Toshiba Satellite L645) and the WiFi router is larger than I would like it to be. I noticed that the download speed that I get is highly dependent on the orientation of my laptop. So here are the results of download speeds for various antenna orientations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-52\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/?attachment_id=52\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52\" title=\"Orientation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/orientation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/orientation.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/orientation-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laptop Orientation and Data Rate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So I am assuming that there is some sort of surface antenna on this laptop that works well in certain directions but does not work that well in other directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a basement and do not get very strong WiMAX signals so I have placed my WiFi router outside my home. Now the distance between my laptop (Toshiba Satellite L645) and the WiFi router is larger than I would like it to be. I noticed that the download speed that I get is highly dependent on the orientation of my laptop. So here are the results of download speeds for various antenna orientations. So I am assuming that there is some sort of surface antenna on this laptop that works well in certain directions but does not work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[38,39],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wifi","category-wimax","tag-antenna","tag-data-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}