Cisco AP Antenna Placement

[drichter12]

I have a Cisco AP1231G installed on my home network and would like some help with optimizing my antenna placement. I have two -3dBi antennas similar the the one pictured here (

http://www.comstarinc.com/cisco/air-ant1728.htm)

which I have mounted in the attic of our 1 story 1400 sq/ft home. The AP itself is in my office because I didn't want to expose it to the summer heat of the attic area and I would prefer to keep the antennas in the attic for asthetic reasons.

My issue is that the antennas come with only 3ft of cable so the antennas are currently located only on one side of the house. My reception at that end is of course very good but at the far end the signal gets pretty weak.

I was thinking of adding a 25' extension cable to one of the antennas so that I can mount it to the ridge beam of the attic on the far end of the house and adding a shorter 8' cable to the other to move it to the ridge beam at the other end.

Can anyone give any advise on a better solution with the existing antennas or any other recommendations wich may improve my coverage without significant (over $50) cost?

Thanks,

Dale

 

[kjv1611]

Maybe I just don't fully understand the power of that Access Point, but why can't you just replace the access point with a Wireless-N Router, such as the D-Link DIR-655?

I live in a house that is ESTIMATED to have been built in 1960. No original documentation could be found to say exactly/definitely when it was built. Anyway, I've got the plaster walls, old wiring, etc. And it seems we get a good bit of wireless interference with ANYTHING wireless - phone, network, cellphone, speaker, you name it. And I used to get hardly ANY signal from one point in the house to another (heated square feet of 1300 - so little smaller than yours without the 2 (total 400 square foot) non-heated "Florida" rooms)

When I went to the DIR-655 router, I've had amazing connections pretty much anywhere/anywhere. DEFINITELY everywhere within the house. I've not really tried much outside the house, so I can't say definite on that.

Total throughput with that thing is amazing, as well. And it costs $95 to $100 most places.

So maybe I'm missing something, but I just can't see why you need all of that for a 1400 square foot house.

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