I am loving my RT3200 so far. I want to mount it to the wall but there are no screw holes or mounting hardware. Does anyone have their unit mounted to a wall? I found a pic in this blogpost where the guy used some metal brackets but it is kind of ugly.
Uff, please be a bit less sloppy.
To do that, you better make a small shelf and put the router on it.
Your mates at home will be grateful.
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A shame there isn't a wall mount option for the thing. Get some nicer looking L-brackets maybe, white or whatever matches the wall a bit better powder coated. It is lame that you will need to drill into the holes in the bottom of it to attach though. Is there anything out there you can 3D print?
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Can't your relocate your RT3200 to a nice bookshelf or other nearby surface? You can buy another RT3200 and hook them up using WDS if you need more WiFi coverage.
Here is where my wife permits me to have one of mine:
(that is, pretty much as obscured as possible, which is probably not ideal for WiFi, albeit in a high location).
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I will look for 3D printing but I never used one before. @Lynx very nice setup.
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it depends from the level of wife approval factor you are looking for.
Another option is to attach some straps to the wall and then put the router in them, like this leather cushion is suspended. You probably want two straps or a single strap that is tightened around the router to keep it from falling.
Try searching (Clear Acrylic Floating Wall Shelf) 
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I don't see why you find it funny.
A simple strap to the wall is simpler and cleaner than putting random clutter in front of it to hide it. That random assortment of objects will get filled with cowebs and dust unless you regularly clean it. If that plant is alive it also needs maintenance. I'm into minimalist design because it's low-maintenance, I don't like cleaning and I don't like maintaining gardens or plants.
A strap is also less effort than a shelf, as it's a single mount point to the wall instead of multiple.
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Heh - it was only meant to be a funny comment about the WAF. Not your idea about the straps.
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I designed a gravity fit 3d printed wall mount, available here:
It was a quick and dirty design but it seems fine, just please dont judge me. Screws into wall. It's a flat bottom so I suppose you could also use that 3m double sided tape, that stuff is strooong.
If you don't have a printer, maybe your friend does, and if they don't, maybe it's cheap to order a print of that. Idk but there it is if anyone would like it.
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pretty cool
can you share a picture w/ router in bracket?
It look like router would be horizontal instead of vertical
One way to do it is to replace the bottom screws with longer ones, that way something can be put in between them.
@factoidforrest's 3D printed design looks to be quite simple and reliable. For those interested in mounting their devices vertically, an alternative is below. I did not create this.
It is not a good idea to wall mount WIFI with original antenna(s).
This video is as basic an explaination I can find but the actual radiation of an omnidirectional antenna is best imagined as a doughnut, with a null zone top and bottom; just like a doughnut.
For those who don't have access to a 3D printer, here is my attempt to create a wall mount using some spare 3/4" plywood I had lying around.
Materials required:
- 3/4" plywood
- zip ties
- wood screws
Tools required:
- Miter saw or jigsaw
Optional tools:
- Table saw
I didn't think to take photos as I went along and jot down specific measurements. But here is the result.
This was intended to be hung in our coat closet. So it's not pretty. I also was improvising as I went along. So I'm sure there aspects that are superfluous (the short "wings" on the sides), could be improved upon, or simplified. But it achieves the goals of being resilient, improving thermals, freeing up shelf space, and not being noticeably detrimental to wireless coverage when compared to mounting on shelf in the same coat closet. I attempted to keep the height of the mount strictly below the location of the antennas.
When placing a cheap, spare 120mm fan beneath the device, thermals reported by the device are in the in the high 52 C range over the course of a week when ambient temperature is typically hovering around 27 C (80 F). This is using "ondemand" CPU governor and a min frequency scaling of 600 MHz.
Edit:
Isn't this gentlemen speaking specifically about avoiding putting ceiling mount access points on a wall? The RT3200/E8450 is a tabletop device.
No, they are specifically talking about omlidirectional antennas and devices specifially made to be dumb APs.
I can see where he gets confusing. Ceiling placement does not bleed up a floor, so it is helpful in conjested multi level enviroments.
You can (best practice) place your AP on the ceiling and commercial grade APs are alway on the ceiling (if professionally installed) but you still have the issues with polarization.
But the reflection he is talking about is from both ceiling and wall and only one is benificial because as soon as it hits the floor it is scattered and single polarization is scattered.
He does not go into scattering.
You can avoid polarization by pointing the antenna(s) down. But there is going to be a null zone directly down, most likley, mitigated by scattering.
Interesting. So this is the device in question.
https://www.belkin.com/support-product/?sku=RT3200
If this device was to be wall mounted in the same orientation as designed, do you still have concerns about wireless performance? I haven't noticed any issues. But I also only have a 2.4 GHz network for guests and IoT devices connected to this specific device.
APs should not be around anything:on a bookshelf, in a TV stand; ideally they should be in the center of the desired coverage with no reflection. This is especially true if they are mimo and or beamforming.
Life is not Ideal.
If you are not having trouble then I do not think the reflection is going to hurt your router/AP like it might with a CB radio pumped up to 90watts.
It is affecting 'all around' range but, seemingly, not enough for you to have noticed.
2.4 does punch through a lot. I have used parabolic reflectors and had 2.4 punch through >30' of apartment walls so I could use a neighbor's wifi until my ISP showed up.
Maybe it would have been better phrasing if I had used 'ideal' instead of "good idea".