On 11/13/2014 1:26 PM, Jason Bailey wrote:
Higher gain,lower power works best,in almost any situation.
But not necessarily in-home. Higher gain only comes from a more
directive antenna. An "omni" gain antenna has a pancake pattern. If
it's a one-story building, fine. But I ran into the opposite situation
-- at my house, the AP is in the basement, and WiFi reception was poor
on the second floor. So I ended up getting one of MikroTik's 951
high-power routers, and pump out maybe +21 (not its maximum -- I sit
near it too much), and it reaches the upstairs much better than the
lower-powered 951 (+17, maybe, with a tailwind) could do. And I've run
into a lot of other people having trouble with whole-house coverage
using standard-power WiFi APs. Sure, the laptop or cell phone won't
have much power in it, but in general the upstream signal gets through okay.
On Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:15 PM, Colton Conor
<colton.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
We are comparing multiple SOHO routers and modems that have the same
Broadcom chipsets. All of them have 802.11N 2x2 configuration. The
only differences between them are if they have internal or external
antennas and the gain of the antennas (either 2, 3, or 5dbi ratings).
In addition, some sell a high powered wifi radio (400mw) while others
have the basic (100mw).
How much a difference does each of these hardware features make in
overall wifi performance?
--
Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net
Interisle Consulting Group
+1 617 795 2701
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