AirPort Base Station Radiation Patern

[Daniel L Kegan, Kegan & Kegan, Ltd.]

Curious about Airport radiation and reception pattern.

Most radio signals broadcast in three dimensions with different strength
(and more signal strength in one direction usually means relatively less in another--
for the same total power);
likewise most audio microphones receive sound with differential sensitivity in different directions.

The AirPort Base Station is shaped like a flat triangle, with the wired ports on one side.
Base Station could be set up horizontal, on a table (with ports facing eg N S E or W),
vertical on a wall or post and aligned eg NSouth or EWest.

Anyone know what the designed 3D radiation pattern is in the AirPort Base station?

(BTW, quite liberating feeling to walk a wireless (battery, AirPort) Ti PowerBook
to another room, displaying interactively dynamic Web pages.)

wired ports
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