On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:18 AM, John Musbach wrote: > >>> >>> I'm afraid I wasn't able to parse "thinner broadcast radius". What >>> shape (??) results from a thinner (??) radius? >> >> Basically, in lower power access points--like consumer Apple airport >> base stations the signal is broadcast in a circular fashion around the >> base station. But as the power increases, the signal becomes more and >> more narrow until at the highest powers the signal is simply broadcast >> in a line from the access point to the receiving end. At least that's >> how I understand it. > > No. Directionality is mainly a function of the antenna design, not power.
Oh alright. I came to my conclusion when I was working on setting up the wireless network for my family at home. I noticed that the only higher power antennas I could find for my (now out of date) airport extreme base station were directional so I assumed that to mean that directionality was a function of power. I tried looking for omnidirectional higher power antennas for the airport extreme but I must've been looking in the wrong places because I couldn't seem to find any at the time. -- Best Regards, John Musbach -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
