[Ti] Airport base station orientation

[khyber courchesne]

I was wondering about that - so the signal isn't really directed "up" much
at all?  Is that confirmed or is this inference just from those airport
diagrams from apple's marketing..?  ;-)   hmmmmm.

> From: rob morris <rob.morris at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:02:36 -0600
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Airport base station orientation
> 
> On 31.3.2004 16:44, "Jason Tertadian" <haiku23 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Actually, I remember reading somewhere once that a vertical mount is
>> actually better in some way.
> 
> Airport base stations use different antennas.  The original graphite base
> station used the Lucent Card that has the antenna built into the card.   The
> next design, the snow base station, and then the one now, the extreme base
> station, use a dipole antenna that is built into the case.
> Horizontal mounting is known to better due to the fact that the antenna
> pattern for all the designs is more like a flat round pattern.
> 
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