On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:38:06PM +0100, Eden Akhavi wrote: > I am trying to find a way to increase capacity over a wireless link > without using 802.11a and maintaining. I am wondering whether anyone has > tried bonding two radios together using a single antenna - for example > > > > [*nix box] -------[Radio 1.1] ------[Ant 1] --- [Ant 2] > -------[Radio 2.1]----- [*nix box] > \--------[Radio 1.2] ---/ > \---[Radio 2.2]-----/ > > > Radio 1.1 and 2.1 would be channel 1 > Radio 1.2 and 2.2 would be channel 7 > > There would be a splitter from the outputs of the radios into a single > antenna. The Unix boxes would be configured to bond the two radios > together to give a theoretical 22Mbps. > > I'd be interested to hear if anyone has done this and also what was used > on the *nix box (Zebra / Netgraph / etc) and also any problems you had > implementing.
Likely, best case, you will get some desensitization of the receivers of the radios. Typically one would use isolators or filters to keep the radios out of each others hair. You may think about putting up separate antennas for each radio and insuring that they are out of each other's beam-width. Tim -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
