Don't forget that WiFi client devices are usually about 30mW. A high-powered AP/Router will, range-wise, out-talk the client. WiFi is two-way, not broadcast.the ac87U is not on the edge of how much power you can transmit. Almost all consumer wifi transmits at 100mW while FCC allows 1W in 5 Ghz. Only some wifi routers can transmit at 1W such as ubiquiti and mikrotik routerboards.
The reason for this is that usually a single 100mW access point is sufficient to cover a house and they want to prevent overcrowding because crowding 1W wifi all over the place is going to be very very slow. On mikrotik's routerboard website you can read the FCC declaration for each particular access point as proof that they allow more power. One of their 5 Ghz wireless N access point transmits at 1600mW
As far as I know, the Quantenna 1000 can tx on max 30dBi...that means a lot... anyway, you need to figure out how to set this value in the ac87u firmware...
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That 20dBm is the usual standard for most 802.11 chips. That's 100mW. Typically available only at the low modulation orders, like 11b mode or lowest 11g/n modes - due to OFDM's higher speed needing 6dB or so of back-off in transmitter power to preserve transmitted waveform rho (distortion-free).
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