I need to provide public wifi for a ‘typical’ outdoor hotel pool area, filled with people with smartphones and laptops. It’s approx 200x100 meters, with a rectangular swimmingpool in the center surrounded by a sun deck with lots of deck chairs, tables and a restaurant patio.
I was initially thinking a few GrooveA, but as it turns out it may be hard to find suitable locations for omni antennas.
Would it be a working alternative to instead place SXT2 60 degree AP’s on the walls of the surrounding buildings, pointing down to the pool area? I haven’t tried this before, so I’m not sure how it would work?
Sxt is much better choice.
I have very bad results with SXT2 60, with more than 12 stations it is very bad with pings over 200ms. With RB912UAG-2HPnD-OUT and sector antenna is better with over 25 stations working very good.
Thanks InoX. 12 stations sounds like a serious limitation for the SXT2. What kind of antenna are you using then? If I place a Basebox2 with a 120deg antenna like RF-Elements SECM2120 on the wall 15 meters up, pointing down at the pool, I could in theory cover the full 200x100 meters area with only this..?
Think not only you “reaching out” for stations, but stations reaching to you. Do you think a smartphone on medium battery will have a good connection on any pool spot?
I have the same RF elements sector. The bigger antenna the better is the signal. Also bigger antenna helps the comunications with small antennas in the phones. I think RF elements is 14dbi gain for 90 and 13 for 120 degrees.