Hello,
I’m interested in getting some cAP XL ac. My concerns are related to the wall mounting and reflectors on the antenna. I would supposed this unit is design optimally to be mounted on ceiling. In my case it would be preferable to mount them on wall.
Looking at the doc it seams to be an option, but would the coverage be impacted since, I would guess, the antenna reflector would reflect mostly the spectrum in a ellipsoid shape covering a floor.
Martin
It looks like they redesigned the antennal coverage on the capacxl (wifi-5) compared to the capac to be more equitable in all directions.
Having said that you would be better off with the TPLINK eap620hd (wifi-6).
Anav,
Thank you, when I look at the gain (6 on 2.4GHz and 5.5 on 5GHz) it makes me believe that the shape is not so spherical anymorem, but I’m no wifi expert.
Obviously, I want to manage them using CAPsMAN, I’ll look at your suggestion though if a manage solution exist.
Martin
Rockyboa,
ANAV is not wrong.
I love caps-man in concept and management. I really don’t enjoy the constant trouble tickets and general complaints. I liked even less having to go into my own pocket to replace a S–t of radios.
In cAP XL ac there clearly is a reflector. MT is not documenting the RF map of the cAP XL ac, we can only reverse engineer and guess, guess, guess …
To go from 2dBi to 6 dBi that is somewhat more than doubling. Or is it 2.5dBi to 5.5dBi, then it is just doubling (+3dBi).
Is the reflector causing the doubling or are the antenna doing it. (From a 2.5 dBi di-pole to a 5.5dBi antenna? and reflector as extra?)
From: https://fccid.io/TV7CPGI52XL
Are these di-pole antennas? Doubled the power in one half sphere by reflection? Then it should give something like a half-dipole-donut shaped spectrum
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Something like this ??? Ceiling mounted orientation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna)
It would be nice to have the real spectrum.
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