Outdoor - WiFi NETWORK with - CPE210, EAP110, WA7210N - Setup
Outdoor - WiFi NETWORK with - CPE210, EAP110, WA7210N - Setup
Hello
We want to build a Wi-Fi network in our allotment gardens. Maybe you could help us. We have the following devices available:
4x CPE210
1x EAP110
1x WA7210N
The WA7210N connects to a hotspot in "AP-Client-Router"-mode
The rest of the setup is not clear to me yet - could I connect all devices with "Bridge with AP"- mode?
The computers and cell phones in this wifi network should be able to communicate with each other.
Thank you so much!!
Max
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Hello,
I finished the installation and the hardware function in this configuration is very well.
The three access points EAP110 have in my opinion insufficient tx power, at a distance of 5 meters mobile phones have only 3/4 reception bars. And after about 50 meters, the connection breaks off.
Is there a way to increase the TX power a bit? (> 20dbm)
Thank you
Max
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tcsmaxx wrote
The three access points EAP110 have in my opinion insufficient tx power, at a distance of 5 meters mobile phones have only 3/4 reception bars. And after about 50 meters, the connection breaks off.
At what height did you mount the EAP110-Outdoor?
Note that cell phones often have weak antennas and therefore their WiFi coverage is very limited (max. 50m for 802.11b/g is no big surprise). What's more, signal power is not the important parameter for good coverage (and it's limited by regulatory provisions). Much more critical is signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To determine wether you have a good SNR at your place, use a heat-mapper running on a laptop with better antennas compared to those of mobile phones. If SNR can be improved, signal quality and coverage will increase for all devices.
To improve SNR, you could try to set 802.11n only mode, 20 MHz channel width and fixed, non-overlapping channels for the EAP110-Outdoor (1-5-9-13 if using 802.11n, 1-6-11 if using 802.11b/g/n mixed mode). In most cases, this gives better results than just increasing TX power, which often increases interference and thus makes SNR even worser.
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