This might be a noob question, but I am struggling (after 3 minutes of googling ) to find answers.
Does the strength of the phone matter - ie in my mind I am telling myself there is no point to put down a powerful Omni antenna in the middle of my house that all my devices can see, but cannot talk back too.
However, wonât a more powerful antenna on the AP give the AP the ability to pick up a signal from a client device even if the client device cannot fully reach the AP?
Does my question make sense?
Rephrase would you rather put a lot of less powerful APs (hAP miniâs/Caps) throughout your house or put down a single AP (example the Metal AC with a 12dBi Omni) which will easily cover the entire building,
APs generally have more power than client devices, so tuning output power to get a balance is important. Youâre right that a higher gain antenna both improves transmit and receive, but at the cost of radiation pattern. For example a 12dB omni in a house would work great on one floor but go upstairs and youâd barely have any signal. I generally prefer multiple smaller APs with low TX power instead of one high power AP, this also allows client devices to use a low transmit power to save battery and minimizes airtime contention (assuming you run on different frequencies).
In addition to what writes @R1CH, a âpowerfulâ antenna will be better at reception of interference if there is any ⌠so it wonât really help to improve coverage as client device will still have to overpower that interference regardless the overall Rx sensitivity of your AP.
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