>It's definitely possible to make wifi work for half a mile and you don't even >need a >600mw transmitter to do that - however, wifi is all about receive >strength, and so >you are unlikely to get a significantly better coverage with >a high power hotspot >which is suboptimally placed. If you do go that route >then getting the antennas into a >location where 90% of the signal isn't >already killed going through walls before it has >to travel some distance is >the trick. Probably also consider a repeater of some sort >rather than just >one high power device
Good points. I got an access point instead of a router specifically so I could locate it in the best position. IMO Wi-Fi routers are dumb by definition because where you want a router is probably NOT anywhere close to the best point for the Wi-Fi part. This unit has a particularly sensitive receiver to compliment the higher power. It would have been nice it it had MIMO, too, as that always helps. Repeaters would be a challenge in this case because most of the property is natural wooded (so no power or protection) and I'm trying to cover a road by only own property at one end. Wilton
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