HELP: Connecting to distant clients in 1 building

Great coverage everywhere with standard rubber
antennas on my WAP11, EXCEPT one distant building holding
3-4 clients.

Goal: minimize expense, 1 antenna at the WAP11 would
be cheaper than a bunch of range extenders on my desktop clients
in this 1 building. Goal2: not to add other WAP's or repeaters
for future upgrade simplicity. No other buildings will be erected
on this land nor any other future expansion.

Findings: I went to that remote building with a directional 5dbi
pringles can. Connection was great... so it won't take much.

QUESTION: Can I successfully put a directional ie: sector or
a dish antenna with a 25degree spread at the WAP11 pointing at this
one building, leaving the second antenna on the WAP11 as the
factory rubber antenna, and successfully avoid
adding range extenders on each workstation in the remote building...
thus leaving only the factory antennas (ie rubber antennas on the
Linksys PCI cards) on my clients in that remote building?

Thanks in advance for your advice, if I had inventory of antennas
I could just test it all out and make it work, but I want to order
the correct parts. Please help me make the most successful and cost
effective choice.

-Brendan

(E-Mail Removed) (Brendan OMara) wrote:

>QUESTION: Can I successfully put a directional ie: sector or
>a dish antenna with a 25degree spread at the WAP11 pointing at this
>one building, leaving the second antenna on the WAP11 as the
>factory rubber antenna, and successfully avoid
>adding range extenders on each workstation in the remote building...
>thus leaving only the factory antennas (ie rubber antennas on the
>Linksys PCI cards) on my clients in that remote building?


No. The dual antennas on the WAP11 operate in what is called "Diversity Mode."
The WAP needs both antennas to be relatively similar in design for it to operate
properly.

If you cannot disable one of the antennas in the setup, there may be a hack that
allows you to do that.

OK let me ask my question in a slightly different form because
I don't want to start another thread going off about the sucky
diversity settings... so lets just say I have 1 and only 1 antenna
for discussion.

Will a 15dbi Omni on main roof punch through 1 wall of drywall to a factory
Linksys Wireless PCI adapter's rubber duckie antenna sitting in
a remote building 400 feet away?

Thanks!
-Brendan