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all on lowest power they will let me set, network quality is an order of magnitude better than it was when I ran one or two access points at high power.
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Using Wifi as the example, I have 4 dual-band access points spread across my property.
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all you need to do is talk to your immediate neighbors to find a route, not every device on the network. as density increases and you go mesh, your actually better off with weaker links. it only works when its a 1-way broadcast or you crank up the power and sensitivity on both sides. your phone dont have any more transmitting capability than it did before, sure it will hold onto a link longer but the range of actual usefull data transmission is pretty much the same as it was before you cranked up the noise into your access point. With bidirectional radio communications one side is always the weakest link, it dont matter if you attach a huge antenna and amp to your wifi access point.
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if I left the Z-stick in the basement and and attached 32ft of coax I'd get a ton of loss and much poorer results, even with a full wave length antenna. You'll get much better results relocating the transceiver than the antenna. My Z-Stick is on the end of a 32ft active cable, my domoticz server is locked in a cabinet in my basement. the onboard quater-wave is more than adequate, and in a mesh environment you'll likely just raise the noise floor with a more sensitive transceiver. There is very little reason to attach a half-wave antenna to these frequencies and distances, they propagate very well at the power levels being used.