Re: [LUG] Wireless LAN Antenna's

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Cubitt wrote:
> Just asking if anybody knows the sort of distance that can be achieved with
> a 12dB Omni-Directional Antenna (Just a rough distance, I know it depends on
> terrain).

Depends on much more than just terrain.....

My understanding is that 12dbi omni will give you around about a 4 fold
range increase on whatever you are getting before. But you may have to
substract off a substantial amount for losses in cables unless they are
very short.

The effect applies at both ends. So you might want to buy them in pairs.

Alec can probably tell you what the correct rule of thumb is.

The current pricing of commercial antennas is such that you can buy two
cheap access points for one well made low gain antenna, so there maybe
other ways to skin a cat. Although better antennas still make more sense
for most situations where range is the issue.

Now do the 50 quid access points support ethernet bridging yet?

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