Originally posted by Need BB
There are 2 antennas for a reason! What antenna would be best for range I need to add a about 500 feet.
Guest,
First of all, Thank You. I appreciate the support. Sometimes I do wonder...
Need BB,
Under most conditions, a 3 to 5dBi antenna will be fine for an additional 500'.
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Yes, there are two antennae, and yes, they are there for a reason. A very specific reason. That reason is called DIVERSITY. It is used to deal with a specific problem with microwave radio frequency communicaion. That problem is known as MULTIPATH.
Now, I quote my earlier post FROM THIS THREAD, since it seems you cannot, or will not read higher. "
Two antennae setup like this are done so to defeat multipath issues. It is a very specific RF design. Moving the antennae away from each other defeats this design, and they now longer function as they should. This is bad, and may result in all sorts of unusual behavior that the designers never intended.
Note the key sentence above:
Moving the antennae away from each other defeats this design, and they now longer function as they should. This is the reason you should turn off diversity in the WAP11 firmware. The antennae no longer function within the intended parameters.
This is also the reason that you only want and need one antenna. Once diversity is turned off, the antennae no longer function together, and it fact, may cause problems with each other.
Again, I echo my earlier post: "
Search on "diversity" and "multipath". This has been covered a in a lot of detail elsewhere on the forums. Many times.
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