Huh? You most certainly can.
Whether it is at all practical is a totally different matter.
True. Financially it may turn out far better to just install multiple WAP's. I am looking at installing a network into a large warehouse/factory floor. Wireless is by far the most ideal method (taking into account of course the recent thread on wide-open WLAN's. I was thinking of maybe trying one of these new MIMO AP's out. Apparently they do much better with both distance and interference.
I guess one of the things behind my question was that it would be easier to mount an antenna in the roof and run a single cable back to the "machine room" than mount an AP in the roof with both ethernet cable and power needed near the AP. Then I just extrapolated that to well can I mount several antennae for the same AP(s).
I had someone (off-list) suggest install a "matrix" of aerials (eg 4) and run them all back to a header-amp with one output to the AP. Not sure that would work, and may be overkill anyway.
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So once you've calculated a system power budget for the two antenna system, and also a financial budget to acheive that particular power budget, you can assess whether or not, it is viable to do at all.
Hope this helps somewhat answer the question, without getting too far into the nitty gritty of radcomms engineering.
It does.
Many thanks to all who replied...much appreciated.
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