GM! TIL, positioning of antennae on your wifi router matters. All vertical is not good.
Having antennas at different angles:
* Improves reliability
* Reduces dead spots
* Helps devices regardless of how their antennas are oriented
I'm going to test with: | | \ -
On the pic: GL.iNET Flint 2 (GL-MT6000)
Vendor firmware is openly OpenWrt with vendor GUI added, but not replacing OpenWrt.
Of course I flashed new OpenWrt, with a custom build from pesa1234.
Repo:
Forum:
Why I use this combo?
Well, a person I admired very much recommended this setup to me
when I asked for a modern anti bufferbloat setup on Twitter. His name was Dave Taht. I followed his work in combatting #bufferbloat for years. His dedication resulted in the whole planet slowly making more and more use of technologies and setups which improve network latency. He passed earlier this year and I'm not likely to change this soon.

GitHub
GitHub - pesa1234/MT6000_cust_build: Repo for GL.iNet MT6000 custom build
Repo for GL.iNet MT6000 custom build. Contribute to pesa1234/MT6000_cust_build development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenWrt Forum
MT6000 custom build with LuCi and some optimization - kernel 6.12.x
Dear. I would like to share with you my custom build with kernel 6.6.x Difference with standard openWRT version: RSS iBF settings & QAM-256...
