Chariot At 5 GHz
There’s no point in kicking a dead horse. Across the first four locations, BeamFlex beats Cisco’s on-chip beamforming by anywhere from roughly 1.5x to 3x. Location 5 is the exception because the 1142 failed to connect.
It might also be helpful to view all five locations in line graph format. As you can see, the relative advantage enjoyed by the 7962 is greater at the closer distances.
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first post?!?!?!
No, REAL first, dipshit.
I don't think it's a problem that this is really only enterprise-class hardware. The very fact that there's an tenna sensitivity that can cripple the entire system shows that for Joe Apefist this is too much trouble for its own worth.
But, the tech shows amazing potential and given some tweaking time, I'm sure it will become more robust and more economical and will rapidly see adoption at home.
Personally I can't wait!
As a crude guide if you want 10dB gain over omnidirectional (10x the power in some direction) then you need to have 10 antenae to cover all directions. It works but with an obvious price in money and size, and a more subtle one in intereference for/from other transmitters unlucky enough to be in the chosen direction.
Personally I'd prefer multiple omni basestations and just focus on minimising distance. Inverse square law is your friend.
Personally I'd prefer multiple omni basestations and just focus on minimising distance. Inverse square law is your friend.
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Yeh totally why punch through 4 walls when you can punch through 2. Plus you can site access points/ repeaters in free space away from mwave reflective objects.
Also note that much more important to enterprise wireless LANs is NOT the raw AP to single client thoughput that so many of these gearhead tests do. We are constantly faced with offering stable and usable wifi for dozens to hundreds of concurrent users in crowded areas (conference centers, auditoriums....) Like any shared medium, Wifi suffers from co-channel interference and overly RF loud clients.
One BIG advantage that you will see enterprise vendors work towards is NOT how much speed to any one client you can get, but how much Reduced interference beamforming will allow to neighboring wireless APs in the same ESS. The net result is that all users see benefit of solid and stable wireless connectivity.