How many aerials do I buy ???

ilium007 · February 2, 2011, 6:49am

Hi - I have already posted about my intention to run an RB493G with 3 x R52Hn wifi cards at home in order to build 3 networks. One 802.11n (trusted), one 802.11g (trusted) and one 802.11g (untrusted) for friends etc to access but should not be able to get to my internal network etc etc.

Anyway, I was going to use the standard RB493G enclosure but I notice it only has 3 x holes for antennas and the R52Hn cards have 2 x MMCX connectors ( I assume for MIMO capabiulity).

My question is, “How many aerials do I need to run on each wifi card ?”

jtroybailey · February 2, 2011, 7:39am

do can run them with only one antenna. It would be optimal to have 2 on each though.

ilium007 · February 2, 2011, 7:46am

hmmm - its going to look like Routenstein with 6 aerials hanging off of it !

ilium007 · February 2, 2011, 7:47am

@ jtroybailey I just noticed you are in Brisbane as well !! I am at Gordon Park.

jtroybailey · February 2, 2011, 8:06am

@ilium007 Well would you look at that, I’m in Kedron.

ilium007 · February 3, 2011, 10:47am

Does anyone know if there is a more suitable enclosure to allow hanging off 6 aerials !

jtroybailey · February 3, 2011, 10:51am

You could always 2 x VirtualAP

ilium007 · February 3, 2011, 10:59am

will that work given one of my networks must be 802.11n and the other 802.11g ?