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>>> I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If it were an |
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>>> expensive one from a specialist supplier then I might have higher |
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>>> expectations, but I'm pretty sure a customer of mine used one similar to |
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>>> yours, and they used to use a book to balance it at an angle to try & get |
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>>> reception. This was between offices on adjacent floors, almost one right |
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>>> above the other (surely less than 20' sideways). |
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>> ... |
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>> Can you recommend a specialist supplier, especially in the US? |
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> I had to google for recommendations to pass on to you, but found: |
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> I've had great results mesh networking with 15dbi omnis |
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> available from http://www.wlanparts.com. With line of |
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> sight I can connect to these from over 1/2 mile a way with |
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> my laptop. Watch your transmit power as with high gain |
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> antennas its easy to venture in to illegal power levels. |
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> See: http://www.rflinx.com/help/calculations/ Remember high |
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> transmit powers only increase range if both ends increase |
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> their power. In most cases increasing power does little |
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> good at just one end of the link. |
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> <https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=35766#p35766> |
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> Indeed wlanparts.com would appear to be the kind of folks I had in mind |
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> (they look to me like the kind of people you could email for advice - if you |
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> were to email them the question you originally posted to this list, maybe |
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> they could suggest a replacement?) but it might also be worth searching |
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> openwrt.org & it's forum for aerial or antenna and take a look at few more |
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> of the results there (i.e google "aerial or antenna site:openwrt.org" will |
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> include the forums). |
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> Stroller. |
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Thanks a lot, plenty of info there. |
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- Grant |
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