Ray J
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:16:59 -0700
what is the roof made of?is there a metallic under lament below the shingles or whatever there is up there...
aluminum siding on the building?at 2.4 ghz almost everything is a pretty good attenuator...very much so with metal...
there is nothing to "hide" the antenna by on the roof?? probably not.. that would be way to simple..
Darn HOA.. Ray J W9RAY 50-1296mhz www.w9ray.org
WiPhiles (tm),I want to start a PublicIP.net hotspot in my townhouse complex. I've got it all up and working, but the range is disappointing.I have a rugged version of the Cisco Aironet 350 up in my attic attached to a Hyperlinktech 15dBi omni antenna. I figure the attic is probably ~30ft off of the ground. The antenna has an 8 degree vertical beam width. Simple trig tells us that the beam should "touch the ground" ~215 feet out. I walked all around, and I couldn't get any connection (from a laptop) at anything more than approx. 200 feet away. I can access my "regular" access point (also 100mW, standard 2dBi antennas) from ~100 ground-feet away.I suppose I thought I'd get better range through the buildings of the complex. I don't really want to mount it on the roof...because I'm just renting this place and don't want the HOA calling my landlord :). Any comments? -Kris ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless End of wireless Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1 ***************************************
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