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Building office AP - antennas question

Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:25 pm

My apologies for noob question, please help me to understand this first time

I'm going to put together an access point for my little office - a routerboard with one G and one N card.

Well, I looked at 411 series cases, they have holes for two antennas.

But I have two cards - how can I squeeze all the antennas having a case like 411 or 433?
 
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Re: Building office AP - antennas question

Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:36 pm

Make additional hole for the last one or use pigtails and mount them outside the case on selfmade stand.
 
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Re: Building office AP - antennas question

Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:18 pm

My apologies for noob question, please help me to understand this first time

I'm going to put together an access point for my little office - a routerboard with one G and one N card.

Well, I looked at 411 series cases, they have holes for two antennas.

But I have two cards - how can I squeeze all the antennas having a case like 411 or 433?
Hello,

If You want to use two radio cards You'll need to buy RB433, RB411 supports only one radio card.
 
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Re: Building office AP - antennas question

Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:08 pm

for example RB411R has miniPCI slot and built in radio.
 
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Re: Building office AP - antennas question

Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:54 pm

Right, I guess my question is - do I really have to use 4 antennas for 2 cards?
Those off the shelf dual radio N routers usually have 2 or 3 rubber duckies...
 
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Re: Building office AP - antennas question

Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:34 am

if you have MIMO then better use 802.11n with all available channels for improved speeds. With R52n you can get 300Mbps air rate (that is 2 channel)

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