Hell, you could use an SXT and go as high as you want. ;-)
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Goldstein" <f...@interisle.net> To: wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:07:20 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 2dbi vs 3dbi vs 5 dbi vs 100mw vs 400mw On 11/13/2014 1:26 PM, Jason Bailey wrote: Higher gain,lower power works best,in almost any situation. But not necessarily in-home. Higher gain only comes from a more directive antenna. An "omni" gain antenna has a pancake pattern. If it's a one-story building, fine. But I ran into the opposite situation -- at my house, the AP is in the basement, and WiFi reception was poor on the second floor. So I ended up getting one of MikroTik's 951 high-power routers, and pump out maybe +21 (not its maximum -- I sit near it too much), and it reaches the upstairs much better than the lower-powered 951 (+17, maybe, with a tailwind) could do. And I've run into a lot of other people having trouble with whole-house coverage using standard-power WiFi APs. Sure, the laptop or cell phone won't have much power in it, but in general the upstream signal gets through okay. <blockquote> On Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:15 PM, Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> wrote: We are comparing multiple SOHO routers and modems that have the same Broadcom chipsets. All of them have 802.11N 2x2 configuration. The only differences between them are if they have internal or external antennas and the gain of the antennas (either 2, 3, or 5dbi ratings). In addition, some sell a high powered wifi radio (400mw) while others have the basic (100mw). How much a difference does each of these hardware features make in overall wifi performance? </blockquote> -- Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net Interisle Consulting Group +1 617 795 2701 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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