{"id":248,"date":"2012-09-27T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.netspotapp.com\/help\/?p=248"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:29:52","slug":"are-results-directional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/are-results-directional\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: Are results directional &#8211; that is, if I turn the laptop one way or another does that affect results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that the direction of your Wi-Fi adapter&#8217;s antenna influences the scanning results, but it&#8217;s a negligible influence. In fact, the difference in signal no matter which way your turn your laptop will only be a few decibels. So don&#8217;t worry about it. It won&#8217;t have any meaningful impact on your survey results. When NetSpot places a new <a href=\"\/help\/terms-definitions\/#point\">sampling point<\/a> on the map, it actually takes 3 measures, approximates them, and saves the received data for further processing. We doubt it would be more useful if we asked users to point their laptops in the same direction each time they took a new sample.<br \/>\n<div class=\"media post-download\">\r\n<div class=\"media-left media-middle\"><i class=\"box-40x40 icons icon-mac-xs  \"><\/i><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"media-body media-middle\">Get started with NetSpot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/netspotpro.html\">WiFi analyzer for macOS<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"google\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"netspotapp\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"FAQ%3A%20Are%20results%20directional%20-%20that%20is%2C%20if%20I%20turn%20the%20laptop%20one%20way%20or%20another%20does%20that%20affect%20results%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that the direction of your Wi-Fi adapter&#8217;s antenna influences the scanning results, but it&#8217;s a negligible influence. In fact, the difference in signal no matter which way your turn your laptop will only be a few decibels. So<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,32,85,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-site-survey","7":"tag-adapter","8":"tag-direction","9":"tag-macbook","10":"tag-rotate"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9163,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}