I can never resist the urg to drill hole in airports... so I'd add the antenna to the airport... also it will just increase your reach as a general case so performance may improve slightly for all clients.
joelja On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I have an Orinoco/Gold PC card in a laptop that has a kind of dodgy link > to my AP: I get 2 yellow bars with the client manager, and the site > monitor shows noise is around -95 and signal is about -80 ... so snr is > 15. For general web surfing, this is fine; but when using file sharing > to get to the household MP3 server, I experience dropouts, etc. Another > node that's pretty close to the AP (Apple Airport) is about snr 30-32 > and has all green bars and works great. So I'm thinking an external > antenna might help out; would it be better to put an external on the AP > or on the dodgy node? If I got one of those 5dBi blade antennae, should > I expect my snr to go from 15 -> 20? Or does the internal antenna for > the card already provide some and thus it's plus 5 but minus N ...? Am > I even thinking about this right? > > All other things being equal, should I get a 5dBi blade for the node or, > say, an 8dBi "smoke detector" for the AP? Is that going to be enough? > > Thanks, > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
