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I'm just impressed they labelled the WAP.
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That's just an AP. That's not a directional antenna for a wireless bridge. You can even read the AP sticker on it.
I think they were trying to say that the cage in front with the AP behind, acts as a directional antenna. Similar to how Yagi antennas have metal elements that aren't connected in front of the actual antenna.
But I don't know enough antenna theory to know if that's correct.
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Maybe if use smaller, tighter squares.
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All those confident words they typed... for nothing. Lol
I must be missing the joke or something? That's literally what this is. It's an AP not a directional antenna. I have used a ton of directional antennas. Hell I have one that I'm using to get my network to my garage which is 1/4 of a mile away.
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I think they were trying to say that the cage in front with the AP behind, acts as a directional antenna. Similar to how Yagi antennas have metal elements that aren't connected in front of the actual antenna.
But I don't know enough antenna theory to know if that's correct.
I guess lol
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Wifi is a fickle beast, though you may be right.
The elements of the cage will probably interfere, but won't straight up block the signal. To be an effective faraday cage, holes in the material must be no bigger than 1/10th the wavelength.
2.4GHz wifi has a wavelength of 12cm, and 5GHz is about 5cm...so holes in the cage should be no bigger than 1.2cm for 2.4GHz, or 0.5cm for 5GHz.
I may expect some signal reflection and likely a high noise floor as a result to being so close to a hunk of metal. That'll cause some problems.
Problem #1 is this AP is oriented vertically on a wall. The antennas in these models are designed to be parallel to the floor, and usually not much higher than 15ft.
2.4GHz wifi has a wavelength of 12cm
that's actually massive, I thought it would be like half a centimeter at most
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They need more "I" in their IT, plastic protectors exist.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If it's higher than eye-level, they don't need a cage for it at all. It's not even locked, just use any old Phillips screwdriver to remove the 4 screws!
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If it's higher than eye-level, they don't need a cage for it at all. It's not even locked, just use any old Phillips screwdriver to remove the 4 screws!
The cage is to protect it from flying balls.
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I must be missing the joke or something? That's literally what this is. It's an AP not a directional antenna. I have used a ton of directional antennas. Hell I have one that I'm using to get my network to my garage which is 1/4 of a mile away.
I was agreeing with you
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I was agreeing with you
Ah lol I gotcha!
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2.4GHz wifi has a wavelength of 12cm
that's actually massive, I thought it would be like half a centimeter at most
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Newer standards are substantially shorter at 5GHz and 6GHz, but this comes at the cost of significantly worse signal penetration through walls.
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The mesh is just about the size of the wifi wage length
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Yeah boss the RSSI numbers look great!
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"I see the problem, your AP is in the Faraday Chasity Cage. Closing ticket."
Putting my horny robots in the faraday chastity cage
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If it's higher than eye-level, they don't need a cage for it at all. It's not even locked, just use any old Phillips screwdriver to remove the 4 screws!
Why would it be locked????
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Probably not for a MIMO AP. The whole idea is that you solve the equations to optimize in the presence of multipath. It's legit wizard shit but it's the reason why your cell phone works in a parking garage, because the optimal channel is bouncing off the ventilation shaft. For any reasonably modern AP, it should work the same way. This might hurt a bit but not that much.
MIMO will solve lensing issues but not internal reflection or absorbance.
So like OP says, it’s a signal strength issue.
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I'm just impressed they labelled the WAP.
Get a bucket and a mop for that wireless access point
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Get a bucket and a mop for that wireless access point
*Wet Access Point.
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That's just an AP. That's not a directional antenna for a wireless bridge. You can even read the AP sticker on it.
Yeah, It looks like a Cisco Aironet 2702i WAP.
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Remember when some jokers started selling Faraday cages for Wi-Fi routers on Amazon, claiming that it would protect the user from wireless signals?
