Help with Cisco Aironet 1310 and Aironet 6-dBi Omnidirectional Antenna

[Anty506]

Hi,


I have a Cisco Aironet 1310 that I have indoors inside of a hall closet with an Cisco Aironet 6-dBi Omindirectional Antenna (AIR-ANT5160V-R)


The problem I have is signal range!!! Its very very low! My linksys router has better range than my aironet


I have the antenna laying on top of the door frame in the closet, which I'm sure may kill the range some, but I would think I should still be able to walk outside and still pick up on my aironet!


I may just have the arionet configred incorrecetly, so I'm going to post my config below for you guys to take a look at and give me some pointers. When I go to the cisco outdoor bridge range calcuation utility and enter my antenna, it tells me I should have a range of 1.92 miles using 54mb/s and 8.57 miles using 6mb/s. Can someone help me get the max range out of my aironet?


Building configuration...


Current configuration : 1517 bytes
!
version 12.3
no service pad
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec localtime show-timezone
service password-encryption
!
hostname Anty506-AP1
!
enable secret 5 #############
!
ip subnet-zero
!
!
no aaa new-model
!
dot11 ssid ZELLA-AP-01
authentication open
!
!
!
username amanzella privilege 15 password 7 ############
!
bridge irb
!
!
interface Dot11Radio0
no ip address
no ip route-cache
!
encryption key 1 size 40bit 7 ########## transmit-key
encryption mode wep mandatory
!
ssid ZELLA-AP-01
!
speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 6.0 9.0 basic-11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0
no power client local
power client 100
power local cck 100
power local ofdm 30
station-role root access-point
antenna receive right
antenna transmit right
antenna gain 6
bridge-group 1
bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control
bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source
no bridge-group 1 source-learning
no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
!
interface FastEthernet0
no ip address
no ip route-cache
bridge-group 1
no bridge-group 1 source-learning
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
hold-queue 80 in
!
interface BVI1
ip address 192.168.1.223 255.255.255.0
no ip route-cache
!
ip default-gateway 192.168.1.1
ip http server
no ip http secure-server
ip http help-path

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/prodconfig/help/eag

!
!
control-plane
!
bridge 1 route ip
!
!
!
line con 0
line vty 0 4
login local
!


Thanks,

Anthony

 

[PScottC]

You're using a 5GHz antenna (802.11a) on a device that can only supply 2.4GHz services (802.11b/g). You need to get the appropriate 2.4GHz antenna.

Compatible antennae are listed here: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5679/ps5861/product_data_sheet09186a008022198b.html[/url]

PSC
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