[WLANware] good news everyone

[Jens Nachtigall]

Hi Aaron,

thanks for the good news, good to know :) 

But one question, I somewhat understood what antenna diversity is about 
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_Diversity). Do you have any link 
explaining rx/tx antenna separation? do you mean that there is one antenna 
(statically?) dedicated to rx (receiving) and one to tx (transmitting)? at 
the same time? 

Best,

Jens

 
> In the course of this rather unpleasant visit they also measured how
> well the RX and TX antenna outputs are separated on the standard linksys
> WRT54G(L). The good news: there seems to be 26 dB difference between
> antenna A and B !
>
> What does that mean?
> It seems perfectly legal to operate a 24dBi high gain antenna (or even
> more!) on the RX side and a normal less powerful antenna on the TX side.
> In other words: the linksys does not "talk over" from the TX antenna to
> the RX antenna.
> This can help us to build better mesh networks. You could also express
> this as: "talk quietly, don't shout and listen very intently" In these
> setups the total SNR (signal to noise ratio) in the whole network will
> probably increase quite nicely. And this is what counts for 802.11a/b/g
> WLANs.
> For most people this is not a surprise. Nice fact is that the RX/TX
> separation actually works (legally) on the Linksys.