don't forget, that communication is going both ways , so if client can receive 1W signal transmitted by AP, does not mean that AP will receive 100 mW signal transmitted by client ....
Well, in this case, yes it does. Because the majority of WiFi stuff was deaf that has been made lately and that is on purpose, to not receive interference. The 1 watt ap that I have has a very hot receive also to compensate for the lack of power put out by the older equipment. This particular router will easily out receive a signal compared to my DIR-825 by what seems to be a 4:1 ratio, meaning with my Android phone I still have an internet connection 400% further then I did, and this is not in free space, there are trees and houses in the way in the Los Angeles suburbs. But a 14Dbd yagi will also increase your power and directivity (and reduce interference). If I had the room to mount the directional antenna and only needed to go 1 place, I would go with a directional antenna, in my case I have a 2 story house and a 1/4 acre and need coverage in all directions. Todays routers are usually 15-20Mw, if they were 100Mw, things would be much better. Their may be some out there that do 100Mw, but few I could find.
Also my kid with his X-Box 360 was connecting at 10Mbps on the older router, he is connected to the new 1 watt router at 65Mbps, no distance or client change (60 feet through walls and floors), only the router with a better receiver and 1 watt output. The old router a piece of junk? Linksys 54G's and I also tried my DIR-825. I had to use 3 ap's before to cover my property, now I just use the 1 watt router and its better receiver.
Infrastructure mode(I think that is the one) will allow you to connect a router to an AP as if the router was connecting to the internet directly via a cable, you tell the router with infrastructure mode to connect to a certain AP that is hard wired to the internet modem, give it the password and you now have 4 ports that is built into the router. If you are going to put an AP in repeater mode, you are going to cut your connection speed in half, the repeater only works in simplex, so it can only receive or transmit, not both at the same time. I see this with mountain top data sites, people don't understand, if you are not going through a repeater with duplex and you are using recieve-store-forward methods, this is a brutally slow method, but works. Going through more the one or two would be a deal killer for me and yes I have tried it on mountain tops.
The PL-APN router has a 1 watt amplifier in it with a killer receiver/preamp and it also has infrastructure mode. Would I use it as my primary firewall router hooked directly to my cable modem, no, but as an AP it works. Next someone will come back and say that router only puts out 28Dbm, that is NOT 1 watt, correct! It is usually the first 9Db of gain that counts with an amp, 25Mw to 600Mw is more then 9Db and the signal is MUCH cleaner if you don't push an amp 100%. I use the DIR-825 hooked to this PL-APN. I wish D-Link made a 500Mw router, the before mentioned PL-APN is clearly Chinese hardware and software, but it works well as long as after changing the settings in the AP you unplug the AP for 30 seconds and then plug it back in, mine has been up for 2 weeks, no problem. When I would do a soft restart ONLY, the router would usually refuse connections in a day or so, thus the HARD restart. In the US the ERP for WiFi for an unlicensed person I believe is 4 watts ERP, this router even with a 5Dbi antenna is still 50% below maximum legal.
Furry: The problem with my kids XBOX 360 and being dropped was fixed by buying more bandwidth from TWC, it turns out that I had one kid doing video chat and the other one on Xbox live, so 1x10 was not cutting it. I increased the the amount of bandwidth to 2x15 and he has not had any drops in 3 days, now everyone in the house is using the PL-APN in "N" only mode with no complaints.
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