Mac Studio upside down wifi fix

WrongWayRecording--

The deeply technical nature of your post means you have attracted as Readers some of the toughest geeks on the Mac forums. This is a REALLY tough audience to get compliments from.

Compared to the Readers attracted to a more widely-accessible subject, Your reception here on this narrow subject is comparable to having the road before you strewn with strewn with Rose Petals.

DON'T take any grumbling personally! Your experiments and results ARE appreciated!

The fan-forced airflow through the unit does not seem to take advantage of any 'chimney effect', so up or down should be a don't care.

Ethernet:

Note that if you attempt to use the built-in Ethernet instead, two-pair cables and 100 M speeds are NOT supported. On the Mac Studio, Ethernet cables REQUIRE all four pairs of wires, and Gigabit is the slowest speed supported.

If it works for you, fine. In my opinion it has everything to do with WiFi router and Mac Studio placement, potential degradation of signal because of environment, and not where the Studio's antenna is. My own Mac Studio gets over 700mbps over WiFi right side up. Have you experimented with any of these possibilities? I categorically reject your "nice one, Apple" design criticism.

Most users do not need to enable the FireWall in the Mac itself.

if you are behind a Router you control, the state-wise FireWall in the Router and its Network Address Translation feature should make your individual computers unreachable from the Internet.

One reason this is a narrow subject is that many high-end users have abandoned WiFi for higher speed, reliable transfers over Ethernet connections.

Rock-solid 1 G bits/sec with no radio problems or competition from other sources or other computers has its appeal. Apple is generally stingy in supplying more hardware. But in the case of the Mac Studio, they included a 10 Gigabit capable Ethernet port whose SLOWEST speed is 1 Gigabit.

But yeah, for Ethernet you have to pull a cable. That is a non-starter for some. Leviton termination blocks make it easy to terminate a cable in a wall Jack. Anyone who is handy can use those, no custom cables or crimping tools required.

My house is solid masonry construction with wire lath behind the plaster. It is a WiFi dead zone. I have been steadily adding Routers in an attempt to improve the WiFI. I am currently up to FIVE access points, all connected with Ethernet cables.

One of the recent high-end Routers I bought came with 2.5 G Ethernet-over-copper already in place, and another came with a separate 10 G Ethernet-over-copper port. I have added a 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch to direct traffic.

For modest-length runs, the increment to put in high-spec cables is negligible.

My Studio gets 1200Mbps via WiFi, the only problem I've had is a bug in the Mac firewall, and there's a workaround for that when the new OS comes out.