Well, Jim is perfectly right about the point below, and I though I'd use this a starting point to gripe about the WSB24.
I do a lot of informal (read: freelance to businesses who did it themselves and wonder why its crappy) wireless consulting, and have ultimately come to hate the WSB24. Sure, if you have an original WAP11 or BEFW11S4, you may see some improvement from a WSB24.
But the results with other units/versions can be so horrifying as not to be imagined. One WSB/BEFW v3 combination I found was fairly obvious: attach WSB, nothing will associate with the AP and you're lucky if netstumbler will even notice that it's there. v2 units and etc can be fine, even helped by the WSB, but more often than not they loose signal strength and when they don't there seem to be problems associating with the AP in interference or dead zones where things were fine before the AP -- for instance, I was recently at a cafe location where the link was 90% behind a brick wall out front without the WSB, and where signal strength dropped to 30% and no association was possible after the WSB.
Given that Linksys's marketing has hardly ever made it clear that the WSB24 is (supposedly) only for use with the original versions of the WAP11 and BEFW11S4, my feeling is not only to AVOID but that Linksys is fairly deep into misrepresentation here.
Though not so much as the 2Overlord, below :).
Cheers,
John
At 07:13 PM 10/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:
This is so wrong.
Full Duplex wireless (in the same frequency) is a 120dB problem, possibly more.
Jim
On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe This Can Shed Light on the EXTRA Benefits of adding a WSB24 to a BEFW11S4 or WAP11
There seems to be some MAJOR Misunderstanding or at least not documented of some EXTRA Functionality of adding a WSB24 to a BEFW11S4 or a WAP11 for that matter.
Not ONLY does the WSB24 amplify both the receive and transmit signal on BOTH the BEFW11S4 and the WAP11 it also allows both of these units ("And currently ONLY these units") to be FULL-DUPLEX at "Virtually" 20Mbps which DOUBLES the bandwith on BOTH the BEFW11S4 and the WAP11 by using one antenna as transmit at 10Mbps and the other antenna at 10Mbps receive. This all happens AUTO-MAGICALLY with NO firmware changes to the BEFW11S4 or the WAP11.
So when building a Wireless Network it is important to realize that even if you don't start with the WSB24 as part of your initial Wireless Network plans you can in the future DOUBLE your bandwith between BEFW11S4's and WAP11's Increase transmit power as well as increase receiver sensitivity at a later time in the future.
Additionally Linksys NOW has a new firmware version which allows the WAP11 to act as a repeater BUT only with other WAP11's. So you now have the ability to do all the above and extend your Network as well, sweet huh?
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