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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>>It's definitely possible to make wifi work for half a
mile and you don't even need a >600mw transmitter to do that - however, wifi
is all about receive strength, and so >you are unlikely to get a
significantly better coverage with a high power hotspot >which is
suboptimally placed. If you do go that route then getting the antennas
into a >location where 90% of the signal isn't already killed going through
walls before it has >to travel some distance is the trick. Probably
also consider a repeater of some sort >rather than just one high power
device<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good points. I got an access point instead of
a router specifically so I could locate it in the best position. IMO Wi-Fi
routers are dumb by definition because where you want a router is probably NOT
anywhere close to the best point for the Wi-Fi part. This unit has a
particularly sensitive receiver to compliment the higher power. It would
have been nice it it had MIMO, too, as that always helps. Repeaters would
be a challenge in this case because most of the property is natural wooded (so
no power or protection) and I'm trying to cover a road by only own property at
one end.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wilton</FONT></DIV>
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