Hi,
I have a very small wireless network. I'm trying to cover a distance of about 8 feet in the same room if you can believe it. Trust me that I'd be using ethernet if I could...
Anyway here's the gear;
Asus RT-N16 running Tomato and/or DD-WRT depending on the day of the week
TP-Link WN951N PCI WiFi N card
The problem? I get great signal as you'd expect across only 8 feet in the same room (about -45). However, my signal quality sucks. Tomato reports it in the high 20's to low 30's, while DD-WRT reports it in the low 50's. Win 7 reports 3-4 bars normally.
I'm picking up 30+ competing AP's, and they are nicely distrubuted across all of the channels. I've tried changing channels without much success.
My question is if an upgraded antenna on the PCI card would offer any opportunity to help? The TP-Link comes with puny 2db antennas, and I've read good reviews on newegg and NCIX of TP-Links 8db antenna on the 10cm leader cord (taking the antenna away from the tower and ground).
Will an antenna help me at all, or will it just help pick up more signal and more noise?
Thanks,
coreyinoz
I have a very small wireless network. I'm trying to cover a distance of about 8 feet in the same room if you can believe it. Trust me that I'd be using ethernet if I could...
Anyway here's the gear;
Asus RT-N16 running Tomato and/or DD-WRT depending on the day of the week
TP-Link WN951N PCI WiFi N card
The problem? I get great signal as you'd expect across only 8 feet in the same room (about -45). However, my signal quality sucks. Tomato reports it in the high 20's to low 30's, while DD-WRT reports it in the low 50's. Win 7 reports 3-4 bars normally.
I'm picking up 30+ competing AP's, and they are nicely distrubuted across all of the channels. I've tried changing channels without much success.
My question is if an upgraded antenna on the PCI card would offer any opportunity to help? The TP-Link comes with puny 2db antennas, and I've read good reviews on newegg and NCIX of TP-Links 8db antenna on the 10cm leader cord (taking the antenna away from the tower and ground).
Will an antenna help me at all, or will it just help pick up more signal and more noise?
Thanks,
coreyinoz