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"'Ian Andrew Bell'" <fork@ianbell.com>,
	"'Eugen Leitl'" <eugen@leitl.org>
From fork-admin@xent.com  Wed Oct  2 11:48:11 2002

That's what the manual said - a diversity antenna.
Why wouldn't it work well with one omni and one directional antena?
IANAEE, but doesn't that count as diversity?
> From: Ian Andrew Bell [mailto:fork@ianbell.com]
> Cc: Damien Morton; tomwhore@slack.net; fork@spamassassin.taint.org
> I think what you're looking at with the dual antenna mounts is a
> diversity antenna.  It won't work too well with one hooked up to the
> pringles can and the other hooked up to a regular rubber duck.
> On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > 1) reinforced concrete shields like the dickens; wood lots less so
> > 2) line of sight is best (o'really?)
> > 3) if you want to boost range, use directional aerials, not omnis
> > Direct line of sight (no trees, no nothing) can give you ~10 km with
> > aligned directional aerials (and, say, no sleet, no
> > blood). If you want to fan out afterwards, use a bridge of a
> > coupling to an omni. 802.11a should shield within building
> > 802.11b, ditto line of sight with lots of precipitation inbetween.
> > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Damien Morton wrote:
> >> I just bought a LinkSys BEFW1154v2 Access Point Router for $150
> >> doing some dev work on a Symbol PocketPC device with built in
> >> In this 600 sq ft pre-war New York apartment it goes
> >> walls, into the hallway and halfway down the first flight
> >> before it loses contact with the base station. That's less than 50
> >> ft. Inside the apartment, it works just fine.
> >> I just did some further testing - through 2 brick walls
> >> about 25 feet. The signal also goes through the roof pretty much
> >> That said, the Symbol device doesn't have an antenna to
> >> havent done any tweaking to try to extend the range.
> >> The Linksys unit has two antenna mounts - you could leave one as an
> >> antenna while hooking up a directional antenna to the other.
> >> You might find that you have to use several access points and/or
> >> repeaters to get the coverage you want.