Michael Ducharme
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Michael Ducharme got a reaction from dalekphalm in How to minimize wifi strength on a router with undetechable antennas?
Why are you trying to decrease the signal strength? If I put my phone on top of my router it can't connect due to the signal being too strong but that shouldn't be the case even just a few feet away.
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Michael Ducharme got a reaction from Windows7ge in How to minimize wifi strength on a router with undetechable antennas?
Why are you trying to decrease the signal strength? If I put my phone on top of my router it can't connect due to the signal being too strong but that shouldn't be the case even just a few feet away.
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Michael Ducharme got a reaction from mynameisjuan in Old Router - Upgrade?
Possibly - but even then, the antenna gain is only part of the equation. I would say that the receiver sensitivity is often more important than the antenna gain. A lot of routers that have huge external antennas (often looking like UFOs about to lift off) have mediocre receiver sensitivity, so you get lower modulation with the same signal level (compared to a device with very good receiver sensitivity). The larger antennas help to compensate for this issue, but cannot entirely without violating FCC (or other) regulations.
