Brian, while you're correct on all points, setting up AP antennas to radiate horizontal polarization in an omnidirectional pattern is easier said than done. It's much easier to use the standard vertical polarization and put an external antenna on clients that need it.
External client antennas are a good idea anyway -- at least on clients who can easily point a pretty, little directional antenna toward the AP. Don W. ****************************************************** Jim Thompson wrote: > Horizontal, mostly (if there is any polarization at all.) Jeff King wrote: > Just found this FAQ off one of the Telix sites. See at the > bottom where they mention laptop users which confirms what > Jim was saying. > > BTW, I'm using a Antennex circular polarizied antenna in > one of my 900mhz indoor deployments. It made a world of > difference in eliminating dead spots. I can imagine that but I am still wondering what the plane > of polarization is for a standard "dongle" antenna. It can't > be random so it must be linear, elliptical, or circular. I > suspect is is linear in the plane of the card so I suspect it > is mostly horizontal for a card laid out horizontally. I was > just hoping someone could verify that. > The reason I ask is that it then makes a lot of sense to set > up AP antennas to radiate horizontal polarization rather than > vertical. -- Brian Lloyd 6501 Red Hook Plaza, Suite 201 [EMAIL PROTECTED] St. Thomas, VI 00802 +1.340.998.9447 - voice +1.360.838.9669 - fax GMT-4 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
