rooftop antenna range
Given two vanilla wifi radios (say of the wrt54g class in tx power and rx sensetivity) what sort of range can I expect for rooftop, line of sight use with a pair of high-gain 15dbi omni's (eg. Hyperlink HG2415U) ? They won't be obstructed, but the antennas won't really be much above the roof-lines either.
Does anyone have any words of advice about rooftop wifi antenna placement, anchoring, grounding etc? I'm lead to believe that 15dbi
8-degree omni's are a bit touchy on how they get mounted. The MIT roofnet folks had pretty mixed reviews about using the narrower angle, higher gain omni's saying that in practice they tended to need straightening after strong winds. Before I found that info I was planning to simply bolt the antenna to an existing steel antenna pole that was mounted with two W-shaped gable mounts. I'm now wondering if I need something more rigid.-wolfgang
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Wolfgang S. Rupprecht in Wireless Networking
