"I see the problem, your AP is in the Faraday Chasity Cage. Closing ticket."

Remember when some jokers started selling Faraday cages for Wi-Fi routers on Amazon, claiming that it would protect the user from wireless signals?

Faraday was here!

Maybe if use smaller, tighter squares.

I'm just impressed they labelled the WAP.

Hmm I don't think I get this one.

Is it because its in a cage? I don't think that will do much to block the WiFi antenna.

They need more "I" in their IT, plastic protectors exist.

Yeah boss the RSSI numbers look great!

Oh I see the issue... They forgot to ground the cage

The mesh is just about the size of the wifi wage length

This is a 2.4 GHz directional WiFi antenna. Only the back element is connected to the transceiver. All of the other elements are there to focus the signal. Anything metallic within a few feet of an antenna will have a substantial effect on the signal. Think of it as light, because it is, only transparency of materials is a bit weird. The biggest issues will come from metallic materials that are earth grounded and anything with a wire length that is close to the wavelength of the radio light or below, especially around half and a quarter of the wavelength. That pictured wire pitch is spaced very close to the approximate 2.4 GHz wave length. For example most antenna are an insulated trace on a circuit board that is insulated with ground up to a point and then there is a small circuit element that stops the ground and the actual antenna trace continues for the respective light wavelength to transmit or receive. All an antenna is here is an exposed length of single conductor wire.