NanoStation M2 802.11g/n 600mW query.

[bucky]

Hello,

Just wondering if anybody has purchased one of these, do they work ?.

http://www.citytechnology.com.au/mi...page=product_info&cPath=42_43&products_id=256

Currently have a 14dbi external panel antenna connected to a TP-LINK WR1043ND sending a signal to a house that's two doors away. Users up there just use laptops & itouch devices to surf the net watch youtube etc. Just need to get a little more power there. The house is located 2 houses from me , set back from mine.

Any opinions as i don't really want to spend heaps on money for little gain.

Cheers.

 

[devnull]

So the only equipment at the remote location is laptops and tablets?

If you're planning on putting the Nanostation at your house, it probably won't help you.

Wifi signals have to go both ways. Putting out more power at the primary AP won't improve the signal traveling from the clients to the AP. The clients adjust the speed they transmit at based on the signal strength they receive. When they see good signal strength, they transmit at higher data rates. Since your wireless clients are so far away, the high speed transmission will fail to reach your AP, and then the client will have to try to send again at a lower speed. This is very inefficient.

The nanostation would be useful in forming a bridge, but you'd need another Wifi AP at the remote location as well.

Nobody without firsthand knowledge could even say if the nanostation will be able to form a bridge with the TP-LINK unit. WDS bridging is not a certified standard, so it can vary from brand to brand and model to model.

Another WR1043ND would be the product most likely able to successfully bridge, but it has only one radio so it can't be used as a bridge and an AP at the same time. You'd need a wifi AP that has more than one radio, and supports bridging. Either that or a third wifi AP.

 

[tipstir]

Make sure you remember the limits of WiFi clients on the TP-LINK is less than 30x. Exceeding that number would caused issues on the WiFi Router. Both the second one would be limited if used as WDS. What will happen they tend to go duff on these SOHO version. TP-LINK is working on SMB more of Enterprise version to hand more than 1 SSID and 100x clients.