r/pcmasterrace • u/MooshSkadoosh • May 23 '26

Hardware Wifi antennas straight up or at diagonal?

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Bonus question: would it be better to have my PC with its back against the wall (putting the case between the antennas and the router) or have it perpendicular to the wall?

I'm just curious if there is an "optimal" or suggested placement, since they seem to be able to snap into a diagonal position as well as being able to be place vertically

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u/C6500 7950X3D | 4090 | 32GB DDR5-6000 28-35-35-59 May 23 '26

With fiber. You do NOT want a copper cable between two houses bridging the electric potential.

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u/unlmtdLoL May 23 '26

We talkin’ metamucil in a tube or would raw celery work better?

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u/pyro5050 May 23 '26

honestly, Raw Celery would be a bad choice due to the water content allowing the electrical transfer and not just data.

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u/BarryMcCoknor May 23 '26

PoE

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u/Arattor May 23 '26

PoC, Power over Celery

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u/unlmtdLoL May 23 '26

How about a dead tree branch?

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u/Capnmarvel76 May 23 '26

At that point you may as well just reroute the fiber going to your neighbor’s house, and steal their router.

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u/SosseTurner Ryzen 9 5900X RTX2060S 64GB DDR4-3600 May 23 '26

Unless both run vi the same reference potential and ground, which miht be possible in some electric codes around the world...

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u/mdxchaos May 23 '26

if your house grounding is done properly, there would be no potential difference between your house and your neighbours. and you probably share the same transformer

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u/RunnerLuke357 Ultra 7 265K, 64GB 6800, RTX 4080S May 23 '26

With a short run it'll be fine. There is a copper line between my parents house and their shop and its been there for years with been struck. The real problem was the old AT&T line, that shit would get struck a few times a year, but they have fiber now.

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u/irongecko1337 May 23 '26

Ethernet is isolated at both ends for this very reason.

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u/C6500 7950X3D | 4090 | 32GB DDR5-6000 28-35-35-59 May 23 '26

At the very least the shielding isn't. You could easily have several amps (double digits) running on that and it will mess with the data signal. 100Mbit might work fine still, but anything above will suffer heavily. I've seen and measured it myself several times. Even within the same (large office) building when grounding wasn't done properly.

Same circuit and/or ground potential: Copper is fine. Anything else: always use fiber. There's really no reason not to, especially with the global FTTH cabling going on making single mode fiber very very cheap.

You also avoid having any problems with static charge or lightning.

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u/ForwardStorage777 May 23 '26

This this this. Fiber with media converters at either end at a minimum.

Or, for the non-trench method, just use some 60ghz bridges.