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The original was posted on /r/ubiquiti by /u/Bloopyhead on 2023-08-20 15:34:02+00:00.
Need help figuring out what to do about my very poor wireless signal.
I live in a house dimension 40x30 ft, which only has a main floor and a basement.
The internet connection comes into the basement, into a room that is also my office, so that is where I have my router and the nanoHD.
I placed the nanoHD on top of a bookshelf that reaches almost to the basement ceiling. It's flat on the bookshelf top.
Anyway, the nanoHD performance is awful. With a computer not 15 ft away, in the basement, I get terrible wifi performance, like 50 megaBITS per second (speedtest.net).
Same when I put the computer on a desk on my main floor, also about 20 feet away.
Next I placed two computers next to each other on the desk on the main floor. A desktop and a laptop, and tried to copy a large (10 gb) file between them.
it took 30+ minutes.
I moved to my bedroom on the main floor, about 25 ft from the AP, and I ran NetSpot. The bar is orange (bad) and I sit at -69 DB (31%0 signal strength.
This is what I see.
There isnt much in my house. The floors are wood and 2x8 studs. When I did my test in the basement 15 ft away, what separated the computer from the AP was just a single separation wall.
For what it's worth, the AP is facing upwards on the bookshelf, but I've found no difference when having it face downwards or sideways.
Clues?