Help me understand if I am doing something wrong with my EAP225-outdoor orientation
Ok, so first let me say that I realize that the placement of the access point itself is not ideal, but my wife wanted it not super visible. Anyway, you can see my previous post here but I will sumarize bdelow:
My lot is retanguluar and my house is mostly on one side. Next to my house is a 2 car detached garage and a driveway, and then a large "side yard". I also have a small backyard behind my house. I would like to be able to get reliable internet in my driveway, garage, side yard and backyard. Please see the orange oval below of what rough area I would like to cover. The purple dot on the front of my garage is a Nest outdoor cam and the purple dot on the side is a bank of smart wifi switches. The triangle is on the second floor eve where i have the ap installed. It is installed on a custom block i made so it stradling the corner of the house. I have one antenna pointed out toward one end of the oval and the other pointed in the oposite direction. Both at 45 degree angles.
I have been having an issue with the wifi switches, but I chocked it up to cheap switches but when I installed the nest cam, although it connected, the TX rates were in the teens and it would never actually stream video. I am using 2.4ghz 20Mhz only at strengh 20. So my question is, do I not understand how the radiation pattern works? I thought it was a dounut that came out perpendicular to the antenna so at a 45 degree angle and its placement at the second story, the strongest part of the dounut should be almost in line with the nest cam.