
To use an analogy, imagine your antenna as a speaker and your router as your stereo receiver. I will also add that excessive wattage through your antennas that are not big enough can also create signal distortion, which can actually decrease perceived signal strength.


I have replaced several) if your not going to see any increase in signal strength.Ī bigger antenna will give you much more signal strength at distance than increased wattage will, and it will do so without taxing your radios and power supply. You will likely come to the same conclusion I did, there is no need to pump excessive wattage through your radios (which is also hard on your power adapters. Just experiment a little bit, raise your TX and see what your signal strength is at distance. All of the routers I have listed I have tested over a distance of two miles using 19dbi gain yagi antennas on each end. Some of them I haven't noticed any difference at all raising the TX any amount. I notice no difference over 70mw on a WRT-54G, a WHR-G300N, a DIR-825, a DIR-615, an E3000, and several others.

I there is a newer build for my router, but things went screwy with routing loops after I flashed it So I reverted back to the stable build.I have experimented with many routers using DD-WRT setting up long distance wireless links, and honestly I have not noticed much gain raising the TX from the stock output to the limit of 251mw. I already asked in the dd-wrt forums, but. Has anyone had experience in troubleshooting this kind of issue?

The gateway is connected to the Turbo-hub which then wirelessly connects to my Dlink router which I am wired into. I have 3 devices in my LAN, the Satellite gateway, the Bell "Turbo Hub" (Netgear MBR1210) and my Dlink DIR-601. I assume they are being dropped, as 192.168.0.1 (my gateway) becomes "unreachable" thus cutting me and my brother off from the internet.Īnd yet, anything on the other side of the wi-fi bridge can ping my computer without failure. It's been almost a month since I set my Dlink DIR-601 (running DD-wrt) to client bridge mode to allow stronger wi-fi signal (I'm hard wired into that DIR-601 now thought) and still to this day I have this annoying issue with the Received packets.
