One External Ant or Two?

Have a linksys wrt54g with two rubber duckie antennas. WOuld like to go to an
external antenna, but have read that mixing antennas (one duckie, one external)
is not a good thing.

Anyone have any experience or a link they could point me to?

I run a WAP54g (in the loft) with an 8dbi omni outside on the chimney, and a
6dbi panel facing down into the house through the loft floor. 54g on
diversity. One antenna on each 54g connector.

With a single client it works very well. I can move from inside the house to
right down the garden with a good signal.

The problem can come with two clients, one inside, and one outside, both
fighting for a signal, which can get the diversity switch working overtime,
but I only found this out by looking in the WAP log, and saw all the
connects/disconnects. It wasn't obvious as a client at the time, and the WAP
did not crash.

Hope this helps


"Clark W. Griswold, Jr." <73115%2e1041%40compuserve%2ecom> wrote in message
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> Have a linksys wrt54g with two rubber duckie antennas. WOuld like to go to
an
> external antenna, but have read that mixing antennas (one duckie, one
external)
> is not a good thing.
>
> Anyone have any experience or a link they could point me to?

>I run a WAP54g (in the loft) with an 8dbi omni outside on the chimney, and a
>6dbi panel facing down into the house through the loft floor. 54g on
>diversity. One antenna on each 54g connector.
>
>With a single client it works very well. I can move from inside the house to
>right down the garden with a good signal.
>
>The problem can come with two clients, one inside, and one outside, both
>fighting for a signal, which can get the diversity switch working overtime,
>but I only found this out by looking in the WAP log, and saw all the
>connects/disconnects. It wasn't obvious as a client at the time, and the WAP
>did not crash.

Interesting. I will have multiple clients outside, but not expecting inside
clients too often. I wonder if just putting a dummy load on one of the antennas
would solve the problem?